Drugs are by and large a choice that effects no one except yourself.
Right. My brother wasn't in an accident (and lost two months of work) caused by a guy driving high on weed. My neighbor didn't have his car stereo stolen by a guy getting money for smack. One of my friends wasn't held up at knife point by a guy obviously seeking a fix of something. The drugs used by three perps affected nobody but themselves... The accident, theft, and hold up are all products of their imaginations.
Your bare listing of their fates obscures one important point - each and every one of those missions exceeded their design lifetimes. Even Phoenix, which was designed to last only three months, survived nearly five months.
No, I'm not joking. You severely underestimate the side effects and over estimate the usefulness.
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Do we think our banks don't know a lot about us? If only we had known, we'd have never allowed banks to exist in the first place.
The difference between banks and Google is that banks are heavily regulated under the law as to what information they can collect, what they can do with it, and who they can release it to. Google isn't.
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Which misses the point of the book - that you can be disclosing personal information without being aware of it.
Are they saying that aspirin is so simple and helpful that Big Pharma never would have allowed it on the market or would have it tied up in all sorts of patents? But the comparison makes it sound like aspirin is harmful, seeing as Google is portrayed as more powerful than we would have let happen if we knew the future in advance.
No, they are saying that aspirin has so many side effects and health risks that it wouldn't be approved if tested under today's rules.
It's fascinating how the folks replying here leap from 'interested in simple toys' to 'means he should be given complex construction project sets'.
"Interested in toys" != "interested in being a geek" and decidely != "is interested in complex things bearing no relationship beyond geek street cred to what he has so far demonstrated interest in".
No, the idea of the animation was to show how the Google data and the CDC data tracked - with the Google data leading by two weeks. The problem is that they don't track once you get beyond the very general 'rising and falling curve', as the Google data doesn't match the CDC data even when you account for the lag. The Google data contains three false positives and at least one false negative.
Except the graph there shows precisely how the Google and CDC curves differ. Note the first peak in the Google data (at the first tick mark) - which is completely absent in the CDC data. Note the second peak in the Google data (at the sixth tick mark) - which is completely absent in the CDC data. Note the 'double hump' peak (tenth to fourteenth tick marks) - yet again, absent from the CDC data...
Etc... Etc...
Except for the general depiction of a rising and falling curve, they differ greatly.
Yea, living in China is no peace of cake. Inida is the same. And in my opinion (you know how this is), the states are not that much better (ok, I'm not from the states, I just read Slashdot). Anyway, at least what I know from China, they at least admit BS-ing their folks.
In other words, not only are you a biased jackass - you're an ignorant one as well.
Just because you think your cause is righteous is no excuse for forcing your political agenda on another. One need not be a shill to have a conscience.
It doesn't matter that they don't have a financial motivation - it matters that they have a political agenda they've been pushing under the guise of a charitable effort. If you haven't seen any "under the guise of" type posts, all I can think is that you haven't been reading the coverage of the OLPC here on/. - because those posts have been abundant.
The funny part is, it's the OSS advocates referenced in the article who have been pushing "get 'em while they're young" under the guise of "offering a better etc..." as a feature while insisting the same behavior by Microsoft is a bug.
A cell phone is basically a consumer device. A pager was fundamentally a business device. The differences were legion. What I miss most is having a service where the clients were given the number of a human-staffed service and those operators then keyed in the message.
I'm not a consultant anymore but, gawd, if I were, I just don't know how I would do it without that glorious gatekeeper, the pager.
What you are describing is an answering service, not a pager. A quick check of Google and my local yellow pages shows that they still exist.
I didn't say they stopped selling... they just changed their focus, and by focus, I mean what the sales staff are knowledgeable about.
What the staff is knowledgeable about varies greatly from store to store and from individual to individual, and has for decades.
Radio Shack isn't exactly attracting Electrical Engineering graduates these days.
And haven't for years, if ever, EE graduates rarely being attracted to retail positions.
Have you tried to ask sales staff about low level hardware lately? They tend to look it up in a catalog before they tell you whether you have it, without even knowing what it is.
Amen. This is exactly the reason why, over the last four years, I gradually stopped going to my local Circuit City and going to my local Best Buy. (The two are about 100 yards apart.) I could never frikin' find anything at Circuit City because the place was laid out so poorly.
That has to be one of the most misinformation filled posts I've ever seen.
You could trivially buy electronic components (resistors) at a Radio Shack as late as the early 90's. You could trivially buy consumer electronics there as early as mid 50's. After the early 60's they never specialized on anything in particular, not components, not consumer electronics, not computers. (How in the hell do you 'specialize' in consumer electronics, when it covers 90% of your floor space and has for decades?) They haven't changed their essential marketing strategy in nearly 50 years.
Yes, the damage done by freezing is irreversible. There is a very, very, slender and against all odds hope however that the damage will be insufficient to actually completely kill the lander.
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Right. My brother wasn't in an accident (and lost two months of work) caused by a guy driving high on weed. My neighbor didn't have his car stereo stolen by a guy getting money for smack. One of my friends wasn't held up at knife point by a guy obviously seeking a fix of something. The drugs used by three perps affected nobody but themselves... The accident, theft, and hold up are all products of their imaginations.
Handwaving horseshit having precisely nothing to do with what I posted.
The value of the standard is meaningless to Lego, because Lego can't sell the standard.
The Planetary Society blog has a composite picture of Spirit from two years ago and today which shows starkly just how much dust has accumulated.
Your bare listing of their fates obscures one important point - each and every one of those missions exceeded their design lifetimes. Even Phoenix, which was designed to last only three months, survived nearly five months.
No, I'm not joking. You severely underestimate the side effects and over estimate the usefulness.
The difference between banks and Google is that banks are heavily regulated under the law as to what information they can collect, what they can do with it, and who they can release it to. Google isn't.
Which misses the point of the book - that you can be disclosing personal information without being aware of it.
No, they are saying that aspirin has so many side effects and health risks that it wouldn't be approved if tested under today's rules.
It's fascinating how the folks replying here leap from 'interested in simple toys' to 'means he should be given complex construction project sets'.
"Interested in toys" != "interested in being a geek" and decidely != "is interested in complex things bearing no relationship beyond geek street cred to what he has so far demonstrated interest in".
No, the idea of the animation was to show how the Google data and the CDC data tracked - with the Google data leading by two weeks. The problem is that they don't track once you get beyond the very general 'rising and falling curve', as the Google data doesn't match the CDC data even when you account for the lag. The Google data contains three false positives and at least one false negative.
Have you actually watched the animation?
Except the graph there shows precisely how the Google and CDC curves differ. Note the first peak in the Google data (at the first tick mark) - which is completely absent in the CDC data. Note the second peak in the Google data (at the sixth tick mark) - which is completely absent in the CDC data. Note the 'double hump' peak (tenth to fourteenth tick marks) - yet again, absent from the CDC data...
Etc... Etc...
Except for the general depiction of a rising and falling curve, they differ greatly.
True - if weren't for the pesky fact that the Google curves and the CDC curves differ significantly, and not just in lag time.
In other words, not only are you a biased jackass - you're an ignorant one as well.
Just because you think your cause is righteous is no excuse for forcing your political agenda on another. One need not be a shill to have a conscience.
An interesting claim considering that there is no known such loss for 1962. Do you have any further information?
'Rumors', not 'news', and not as far as I have ever been able to determine from anything resembling a reliable source.
I never said it was pushed because it was, or wasn't superior did I? Learn to fucking read.
Have a cite for the 92 number? The usual number given is a fraction of that, 11.
It doesn't matter that they don't have a financial motivation - it matters that they have a political agenda they've been pushing under the guise of a charitable effort. If you haven't seen any "under the guise of" type posts, all I can think is that you haven't been reading the coverage of the OLPC here on /. - because those posts have been abundant.
The funny part is, it's the OSS advocates referenced in the article who have been pushing "get 'em while they're young" under the guise of "offering a better etc..." as a feature while insisting the same behavior by Microsoft is a bug.
What you are describing is an answering service, not a pager. A quick check of Google and my local yellow pages shows that they still exist.
What the staff is knowledgeable about varies greatly from store to store and from individual to individual, and has for decades.
And haven't for years, if ever, EE graduates rarely being attracted to retail positions.
Again, same as it ever was.
Amen. This is exactly the reason why, over the last four years, I gradually stopped going to my local Circuit City and going to my local Best Buy. (The two are about 100 yards apart.) I could never frikin' find anything at Circuit City because the place was laid out so poorly.
That has to be one of the most misinformation filled posts I've ever seen.
You could trivially buy electronic components (resistors) at a Radio Shack as late as the early 90's. You could trivially buy consumer electronics there as early as mid 50's. After the early 60's they never specialized on anything in particular, not components, not consumer electronics, not computers. (How in the hell do you 'specialize' in consumer electronics, when it covers 90% of your floor space and has for decades?) They haven't changed their essential marketing strategy in nearly 50 years.
Yes, the damage done by freezing is irreversible. There is a very, very, slender and against all odds hope however that the damage will be insufficient to actually completely kill the lander.