This is like the old argument over ladies' night pricing at clubs and bars. The lower rates are intended to equalize the gender ratio, not 'discriminate against men'.
China has astronomically qualified sites on the Tibetan Plateau at over 17,000 ft (5200 m) and is already a partner in the Thirty Meter Telescope project. Rather than waiting for the American legal gears to grind away into eternity, site it there and get it built. Because its southern hemisphere companion instrument is already under construction in Chile, the long-baseline possibilities are unparalleled.
The links describe Sixties hot tub party culture of the kind that feminists of the period - I've lost track of what 'wave' that was supposed to be, but it was the one where feminists wanted equality with men - embraced just as enthusiastically. I know that because I lived through it myself, in its epicenter of suburban California. Today's retributive feminists are exhuming tales of that culture to settle current scores.
We of the dark side get that leftists are not doing sex anymore. Though political values are not transmitted genetically, this means that, like the Shakers of old, you won't be influencing any future generations.
My own theory is that when Google's accounting department got expense receipts for the first three seafood dinners from its Boston field staff, it came close to bankrupting the company.
People using such an app would have to learn not to be too conspicuous with it, and the app would have to be designed to facilitate discretion. Say, a mode in which you're wearing earbuds and listening to music while having the phone upright in a shirt pocket, as though you were shooting video in a forbidden place. When the app encounters a familiar face, it wold speak the name if it saw earbuds connected. One can envision other discreet modes of operation.
And that would be capitalism. The FUD campaign waged by medallion cab drivers against Big Bad Uber is a child's sandbox fight compared to Amazon going up against America's most monopolistic industry.
Yet most people do recognize Brad Pitt in different movies, or so I'm told. I don't generally recognize actors from one movie to another.
Judging from what's happening in Hollywood right now, in the future there will be NO actors in movies, only actresses. All male roles will be CGI-synthsized.
A lot of people with this condition recognize people they know in a given situation, such as on golf courses. Take the face out of context, and you might not recognize the same person waving to you in the supermarket.
It's rather like everyone else has a dedicated co-processor that takes a set of facial features and returns a person, but mine is broken, or needs much more training.
This co-processor may not be just 'broken', but any degrees of 'broken'. Some faces are innately more distinctive than others, so your recognizer may work for the most distinctive ten percent of faces. Conversely almost all observers will be fooled by identical twins, even if you happen to be married to one.
There's also an iPhone X app in there somewhere. One that would allow someone with this condition to have the phone's back camera, if Face Id were to be implemented on it, look at a possibly-familiar face, and identify the person if found in Contacts.
No, I have my Siri use boiled down to a set of standard phone tasks, especially those that I'm often called upon to do in full sunlight. It's highly useful for things like that.
If you're a user of Android Voice Command, you will tend to use it for the same tasks, plus "Run Malwarebytes!" a couple of times a day.
Aside from all ideological objections, the biggest barrier to any kind of large-scale extended infrastructure project is the cost and time of acquiring right-of-way. This is primarily what is killing the California HSR initiative, which despite using all off-the-shelf technology, has been stalled over this squabble.
If the gummint is going to build a national fiber backbone, run it along the sides of the Interstate Highway System for zero right-of-way cost. Fiber could be buried for the most part under the right shoulder of existing pavement, or where appropriate, in the median. At each major exit, have a set of tap points that local ISPs would compete and contract for access to, serving the local area along the interchange road. Let one tap at each of these points be reserved for local volunteer organizations, hobbyist and user groups with an interest in getting licensed to operate "ham Internet" service.
The tag line for such a backbone might be "You already know where it goes. You already know where to access it."
UPS swings by at 10am on a Tuesday, and slaps a note on my door that if I want my package, I have to drive to a shady strip mall 3 miles away in another day or two and pick it up from an "unaffiliated" UPS Store.
In my state we have the opposite UPS problem, ring and run. This has spawned a whole cottage industry of "package pirates' who follow the UPS trucks looking for front porches where nobody is home at the moment.
I would like to see USPS contract out access to their cluster package boxes to UPS and other private package deliverers. UPS could then extend the system by offering its own neighborhood lockbox system. Amazon is already using this concept in some laces.
Watch for a forthcoming OS that will run macOS apps and iOS apps simultaneously, with a touchscreen for at least the laptop models. At first such a machine will primarily for developers, replacing the iOS simulator that is now part of Xcode, but we may then see the long-awaited convergence of laptops and tablets.
Honestly, I would not care less. OSX is a poor Linux imitation. If you wanted UNIX experience, just install Linux. It is much easier and gives you a better OS to boot.
That's why all the developers who care to diversify beyond Windows write for Ubuntu.
Banning Bitcoin will work about as well as banning gold did (remember?). Better to let BTC run away until some exchange gets hacked for $10 billion right in the middle of one of those periodic price plunges, setting off a cascade of panic selling. That's the only way to educate people.
I find the police hate to be really annoying. Let me explain the concept of intent to you. The officer was intending to save the lives of two hostages.
Given the frequency of wrong-address SWAT raids, from whatever cause, shouldn't the training include accounting for the possibility that the person opening the door has no idea that a raid is being directed against him? Maybe not riddling the front-door-opener with bullets until you have definite indication that he's the bad guy? Like a kidnapper would just open the door in response to a raid, anyway.
In my experience, a person's brain solidifies when he gets a government job. When something like the swatting incident occurs, the owner of a solidified brain instinctually lashes out against everybody who was playing the game, regardless of whether they were actually involved in the swatting.
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This is like the old argument over ladies' night pricing at clubs and bars. The lower rates are intended to equalize the gender ratio, not 'discriminate against men'.
China has astronomically qualified sites on the Tibetan Plateau at over 17,000 ft (5200 m) and is already a partner in the Thirty Meter Telescope project. Rather than waiting for the American legal gears to grind away into eternity, site it there and get it built. Because its southern hemisphere companion instrument is already under construction in Chile, the long-baseline possibilities are unparalleled.
The links describe Sixties hot tub party culture of the kind that feminists of the period - I've lost track of what 'wave' that was supposed to be, but it was the one where feminists wanted equality with men - embraced just as enthusiastically. I know that because I lived through it myself, in its epicenter of suburban California. Today's retributive feminists are exhuming tales of that culture to settle current scores.
We of the dark side get that leftists are not doing sex anymore. Though political values are not transmitted genetically, this means that, like the Shakers of old, you won't be influencing any future generations.
My own theory is that when Google's accounting department got expense receipts for the first three seafood dinners from its Boston field staff, it came close to bankrupting the company.
At age 74, what chick did he hug forty years ago to deserve retroactive career extinction?
People using such an app would have to learn not to be too conspicuous with it, and the app would have to be designed to facilitate discretion. Say, a mode in which you're wearing earbuds and listening to music while having the phone upright in a shirt pocket, as though you were shooting video in a forbidden place. When the app encounters a familiar face, it wold speak the name if it saw earbuds connected. One can envision other discreet modes of operation.
if (strcmp(Carrier, "AA") == 0 || strcmp(Airport, "EWR") == 0) then DisplayDelay();
The tits know what really matters in the society of today: they mimic our smartphones.
I went to Google Image for these, and all I got was this bunch of birds.
...before the Linneaus Nazis arrive)
Taxosaurus allemanicus dexter...
And that would be capitalism. The FUD campaign waged by medallion cab drivers against Big Bad Uber is a child's sandbox fight compared to Amazon going up against America's most monopolistic industry.
Yet most people do recognize Brad Pitt in different movies, or so I'm told. I don't generally recognize actors from one movie to another.
Judging from what's happening in Hollywood right now, in the future there will be NO actors in movies, only actresses. All male roles will be CGI-synthsized.
A lot of people with this condition recognize people they know in a given situation, such as on golf courses. Take the face out of context, and you might not recognize the same person waving to you in the supermarket.
It's rather like everyone else has a dedicated co-processor that takes a set of facial features and returns a person, but mine is broken, or needs much more training.
This co-processor may not be just 'broken', but any degrees of 'broken'. Some faces are innately more distinctive than others, so your recognizer may work for the most distinctive ten percent of faces. Conversely almost all observers will be fooled by identical twins, even if you happen to be married to one.
There's an iPhone X joke in there somewhere...
There's also an iPhone X app in there somewhere. One that would allow someone with this condition to have the phone's back camera, if Face Id were to be implemented on it, look at a possibly-familiar face, and identify the person if found in Contacts.
No, I have my Siri use boiled down to a set of standard phone tasks, especially those that I'm often called upon to do in full sunlight. It's highly useful for things like that.
If you're a user of Android Voice Command, you will tend to use it for the same tasks, plus "Run Malwarebytes!" a couple of times a day.
Aside from all ideological objections, the biggest barrier to any kind of large-scale extended infrastructure project is the cost and time of acquiring right-of-way. This is primarily what is killing the California HSR initiative, which despite using all off-the-shelf technology, has been stalled over this squabble.
If the gummint is going to build a national fiber backbone, run it along the sides of the Interstate Highway System for zero right-of-way cost. Fiber could be buried for the most part under the right shoulder of existing pavement, or where appropriate, in the median. At each major exit, have a set of tap points that local ISPs would compete and contract for access to, serving the local area along the interchange road. Let one tap at each of these points be reserved for local volunteer organizations, hobbyist and user groups with an interest in getting licensed to operate "ham Internet" service.
The tag line for such a backbone might be "You already know where it goes. You already know where to access it."
UPS swings by at 10am on a Tuesday, and slaps a note on my door that if I want my package, I have to drive to a shady strip mall 3 miles away in another day or two and pick it up from an "unaffiliated" UPS Store.
In my state we have the opposite UPS problem, ring and run. This has spawned a whole cottage industry of "package pirates' who follow the UPS trucks looking for front porches where nobody is home at the moment.
I would like to see USPS contract out access to their cluster package boxes to UPS and other private package deliverers. UPS could then extend the system by offering its own neighborhood lockbox system. Amazon is already using this concept in some laces.
Watch for a forthcoming OS that will run macOS apps and iOS apps simultaneously, with a touchscreen for at least the laptop models. At first such a machine will primarily for developers, replacing the iOS simulator that is now part of Xcode, but we may then see the long-awaited convergence of laptops and tablets.
Honestly, I would not care less. OSX is a poor Linux imitation. If you wanted UNIX experience, just install Linux. It is much easier and gives you a better OS to boot.
That's why all the developers who care to diversify beyond Windows write for Ubuntu.
Maybe they will fix the myriad root exploits at some point too. That would be nice!
When the company gets word of a root exploit, it gets patched quickly. If you know about 10,000 of them, Apple would be really interested.
Banning Bitcoin will work about as well as banning gold did (remember?). Better to let BTC run away until some exchange gets hacked for $10 billion right in the middle of one of those periodic price plunges, setting off a cascade of panic selling. That's the only way to educate people.
This is Nigeria's way of getting back at us for passing the Shithole Nations Act. But without it, we would still be in a government shutdown.
I find the police hate to be really annoying. Let me explain the concept of intent to you. The officer was intending to save the lives of two hostages.
Given the frequency of wrong-address SWAT raids, from whatever cause, shouldn't the training include accounting for the possibility that the person opening the door has no idea that a raid is being directed against him? Maybe not riddling the front-door-opener with bullets until you have definite indication that he's the bad guy? Like a kidnapper would just open the door in response to a raid, anyway.
I find the copsucking to be really annoying.
The brain does not solidify until the early 20's.
In my experience, a person's brain solidifies when he gets a government job. When something like the swatting incident occurs, the owner of a solidified brain instinctually lashes out against everybody who was playing the game, regardless of whether they were actually involved in the swatting.
What can I, AC, do? Maybe write a letter of encouragement
Write a troll post about Trump, or a reaction to someone else's troll post about Trump. This has been scientifically determined to solve all problems.