Is it really too much to ask for people to define their acronyms? I'm a little tired of having to Google an acronym in every story. This one *only* appears in the summary.
I'm sure an editor will be on that ASAP (As Soon As Possible).
"...there is no suggestion anyone was to blame for Walker's crash..." unless you follow that link which says that the police suspect that speed was involved. No question that anyone not in the car was to blame is a different sentence indeed. Looking at the pictures of the scene its hard to imagine that they were driving anywhere close to the 45mph speed limit.
Google uses consumer grade drives. From the google study:
The data in this study are collected from a large number of disk drives, deployed in several types of systems across all of Google’s services. More than one hundred thousand disk drives were used for all the results presented here. The disks are a combination of serial and parallel ATA consumer-grade hard disk drives, ranging in speed from 5400 to 7200 rpm, and in size from 80 to 400 GB.
You utterly misunderstand what this website does. You punch in your zip code and age, it spits back plans and rack-rate premiums. That's it. That's the part of healthcare.gov that actually works, and has since they rolled out the feature a few days after launch.
...also, the premiums it returns are different from what healthcare.gov returns.
Even though this site takes only the easiest task of healthcare.gov, which completely works from healthcare.gov BTW...the "how much are these plans" thing is not what's broken, but the results are wrong. From health sherpa, the cost of a humana bronze plan is 194.72, but from healthcare.gov it is 166.99.
Since the price is relatively close, I guess this site does *something*, but it looks like it is not accurate, in which case it's kinda useless.
Can an editor change the title to "How 3 Young Coders Built a Broken healthcare.gov Portal"?
Turning GPS service "off" is just a software command that looks nice, do you really think you can disable it, short of ripping the GPS chip out of the phone?
If this is a concern of yours, don't have a cell phone, that is, frankly, your only real option. Everything else is just wishful thinking.
So, put the tinfoil away and prove it. Location data of some sort is "always on" for e911, but beyond that you will need to show some proof that applications can access it when you have GPS specifically disabled for them.
Elop? Nokia was already in a nosedive when he started. If anything, he just guided them to a softer crash into a fluffy Microsoft pillow. Before that, the article says he ran MS's business software unit, which is one of the massively profitable divisions. Microsoft doesn't really need a "turnaround", just a focusing of efforts.
The burning of Guys atop bonfires is a celebration that the plot failed. The setting off lots of explosives is a celebration of the fact that it could have succeeded and a reminder to our elected officials not to be too complacent. Most of us just watch the fireworks...
I believe it, but I bet it would be pretty close. Especially since the Tesla is way more aerodynamic than most saloons. At those speeds air resistance will be a major factor.
I don't have exact numbers for speeds and everything, but a A6 TDI can make it from Magdeburg to Dusseldorf with the accelerator to the firewall at every chance on 1 tank. That's 260 miles, and I'm pretty sure the tank was not empty by Dusseldorf. Top speed was a traffic limited 164 MPH. I think our average MPG was somewhere in the teens. I don't see a Tesla being able to come close to that, but it's also not what the Tesla was designed for and almost exactly what an A6 TDI is designed for.
Just about every sound card ( and everything else ) in the last ten years had been made in a factory in China. What is to stop the PLA from slipping just this kind of malware into a sound card chip? Maybe they can even activate and update using sounds from a television.
Phone Losers of America? If that is the case, then this is perhaps their greatest prank to date!
Maybe I'm overlooking the obvious, but how could foo = foo++ in a loop ever not be undefined behaviour? I'm sure I've used used that before in a, and things worked as expected, so it wasn't optimized away. Was I just lucky? I wouldn't have conciously coded around undefined behaviour.
And they play a mean banjo too. I saw "Deliverance".
P.S. A widely used technique in American humor has long been to have an outwardly unsophisticated character who is actually more insightful than the superficially sophisticated characters. In the spirit of the Appalachian-American(1) stereotype, it looks like Kentucky has brought humor to real life.
(1) Bo Duke said that this term was now preferred to "hillbilly".
You obviously didn't pay much attention to Deliverance or Dukes of Hazzard. Both are set in northern Georgia.
Yes -- premium economy (Kayak and Expedia offer this search) and by selecting your own seats to get exit rows and such.
Which isn't really the same as choosing to pay $100 more for a roundtrip ticket on Delta instead of USAir because you see that the coach seats on Delta have 33cm of legroom, while on USAir it is only 30cm. Not that that is the case with Delta and USAir, but I would certainly take that into account if I knew at time of searching instead of having to go and research the seat layouts of all the airlines.
That was a fairly interesting read, although the "Based on my training and experience, I know...." phrase got a little redundant. Federal agents must have that setup as a macro, or have a script that just replaces the beginning of every sentence. It sounds like the dude was generally pretty careful, but he basically slipped up by logging into gmail and leaving clues on social networking (linkedin).
Do you know how many websites I frequented in 1998 that I still frequent? Yeah, that's what the redesign will lose. There are a lot of sites that go through the big re-design, then users complain, then they get used to it, and business as usual. Have any of those sites been around for 15 years though?
Hate the new design. It looks like every other crap website. If you want to talk about "brand", then Slashdot's classic interface/layout would be it. It is about as iconic as you can get on the internet. Don't fuck it up.
Shouldn't that be XFCE's slogan? Something like XFCE: Not Fucking It Up since 1996.
I've only been using it since about 2006, so I can't vouch for any versions before then. Since then it has hasn't given me any headaches and stayed out of my way.
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MOOC = Massive Open Online Course
Is it really too much to ask for people to define their acronyms? I'm a little tired of having to Google an acronym in every story. This one *only* appears in the summary.
I'm sure an editor will be on that ASAP (As Soon As Possible).
) ...sorry, but this *is* slashdot. That open paren is going to cause a problem eventually.
"...there is no suggestion anyone was to blame for Walker's crash..." unless you follow that link which says that the police suspect that speed was involved. No question that anyone not in the car was to blame is a different sentence indeed. Looking at the pictures of the scene its hard to imagine that they were driving anywhere close to the 45mph speed limit.
And later they estimate the car was going 40-45mph. http://www.nbcnews.com/entertainment/paul-walker-was-real-hero-daughter-heart-soul-his-charity-2D11683842
How about waiting until the investigation is complete before jumping to conclusions? The police comment on random shit just to comment in cases like these. For some reason nobody considers "I have no idea, we're still investigating" an appropriate answer.
Yes, soya and lentils. I don't think you'll find the the original story on IMDB.
Well, if it's good enough for Solid Snake, then it can't be too bad. Way better than eating snakes if I remember right.
Google uses consumer grade drives. From the google study:
The data in this study are collected from a large number of disk drives, deployed in several types of systems across all of Google’s services. More than one hundred thousand disk drives were used for all the results presented here. The disks are a combination of serial and parallel ATA consumer-grade hard disk drives, ranging in speed from 5400 to 7200 rpm, and in size from 80 to 400 GB.
You utterly misunderstand what this website does. You punch in your zip code and age, it spits back plans and rack-rate premiums. That's it. That's the part of healthcare.gov that actually works, and has since they rolled out the feature a few days after launch.
...also, the premiums it returns are different from what healthcare.gov returns.
Even though this site takes only the easiest task of healthcare.gov, which completely works from healthcare.gov BTW...the "how much are these plans" thing is not what's broken, but the results are wrong. From health sherpa, the cost of a humana bronze plan is 194.72, but from healthcare.gov it is 166.99.
Since the price is relatively close, I guess this site does *something*, but it looks like it is not accurate, in which case it's kinda useless.
Can an editor change the title to "How 3 Young Coders Built a Broken healthcare.gov Portal"?
Turning GPS service "off" is just a software command that looks nice, do you really think you can disable it, short of ripping the GPS chip out of the phone?
If this is a concern of yours, don't have a cell phone, that is, frankly, your only real option. Everything else is just wishful thinking.
So, put the tinfoil away and prove it. Location data of some sort is "always on" for e911, but beyond that you will need to show some proof that applications can access it when you have GPS specifically disabled for them.
"Ever seen a remote desktop tool that's fast/efficient enough to play back video?"
Yeah, NX. Been using it for awhile.
...that guy that drives companies into ground.
Elop? Nokia was already in a nosedive when he started. If anything, he just guided them to a softer crash into a fluffy Microsoft pillow. Before that, the article says he ran MS's business software unit, which is one of the massively profitable divisions. Microsoft doesn't really need a "turnaround", just a focusing of efforts.
The burning of Guys atop bonfires is a celebration that the plot failed. The setting off lots of explosives is a celebration of the fact that it could have succeeded and a reminder to our elected officials not to be too complacent. Most of us just watch the fireworks...
Do the elected officials realize this?
Citation?
I believe it, but I bet it would be pretty close. Especially since the Tesla is way more aerodynamic than most saloons. At those speeds air resistance will be a major factor.
I don't have exact numbers for speeds and everything, but a A6 TDI can make it from Magdeburg to Dusseldorf with the accelerator to the firewall at every chance on 1 tank. That's 260 miles, and I'm pretty sure the tank was not empty by Dusseldorf. Top speed was a traffic limited 164 MPH. I think our average MPG was somewhere in the teens. I don't see a Tesla being able to come close to that, but it's also not what the Tesla was designed for and almost exactly what an A6 TDI is designed for.
Just about every sound card ( and everything else ) in the last ten years had been made in a factory in China. What is to stop the PLA from slipping just this kind of malware into a sound card chip? Maybe they can even activate and update using sounds from a television.
Phone Losers of America? If that is the case, then this is perhaps their greatest prank to date!
So if you see a hacker hiding under your dashboard you need to worry, as NON OF THIS CAN BE DONE without physical access of the vehicle from inside.
Call me when they can hack Any car wirelessly from 300 feet away using their laptop, until then all of this is nothing but fearmongering.
What's your phone number?
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/423292/taking-control-of-cars-from-afar/
tries = tries++; /* undefined behaviour! */
Maybe I'm overlooking the obvious, but how could foo = foo++ in a loop ever not be undefined behaviour? I'm sure I've used used that before in a, and things worked as expected, so it wasn't optimized away. Was I just lucky? I wouldn't have conciously coded around undefined behaviour.
And they play a mean banjo too. I saw "Deliverance".
P.S. A widely used technique in American humor has long been to have an outwardly unsophisticated character who is actually more insightful than the superficially sophisticated characters. In the spirit of the Appalachian-American(1) stereotype, it looks like Kentucky has brought humor to real life.
(1) Bo Duke said that this term was now preferred to "hillbilly".
You obviously didn't pay much attention to Deliverance or Dukes of Hazzard. Both are set in northern Georgia.
Yes -- premium economy (Kayak and Expedia offer this search) and by selecting your own seats to get exit rows and such.
Which isn't really the same as choosing to pay $100 more for a roundtrip ticket on Delta instead of USAir because you see that the coach seats on Delta have 33cm of legroom, while on USAir it is only 30cm. Not that that is the case with Delta and USAir, but I would certainly take that into account if I knew at time of searching instead of having to go and research the seat layouts of all the airlines.
Many people unfortunately.
Nope.
http://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/UlbrichtCriminalComplaint.pdf
That was a fairly interesting read, although the "Based on my training and experience, I know...." phrase got a little redundant. Federal agents must have that setup as a macro, or have a script that just replaces the beginning of every sentence. It sounds like the dude was generally pretty careful, but he basically slipped up by logging into gmail and leaving clues on social networking (linkedin).
Yes. I refuse to read /. unless I can have OMG Ponies!
Do you know how many websites I frequented in 1998 that I still frequent? Yeah, that's what the redesign will lose. There are a lot of sites that go through the big re-design, then users complain, then they get used to it, and business as usual. Have any of those sites been around for 15 years though?
Hate the new design. It looks like every other crap website. If you want to talk about "brand", then Slashdot's classic interface/layout would be it. It is about as iconic as you can get on the internet. Don't fuck it up.
I noticed that, too. $DIETY only knows what abomination they have planned for the right mouse button.
They're probably considering using the right button to paste, PuTTY style.
Shouldn't that be XFCE's slogan? Something like XFCE: Not Fucking It Up since 1996.
I've only been using it since about 2006, so I can't vouch for any versions before then. Since then it has hasn't given me any headaches and stayed out of my way.