Yes, and the states have the right to allocate their votes however they want. Most states are all-or-nothing, and all votes go to the winner. Some split their electoral votes. There's no reason a state could not wait until the national popular vote was determined and allocate all their electoral votes in that manner. That is not in violation of the Constitution. The original intent of the Constitution with the EC was not to work the way it does now either - which is letting the citizens choose who gets the electoral vote. So your argument about changing the original intent is not valid. That went out the window a very long time ago.
Personally, I'm curious how it would work if electoral votes were allocated by popular vote within each congressional district. That seems like a fair compromise and middle ground.
In Virginia it is a felony to steal items with a combined value of more than $100. The laws are very harsh in VA. I have two acquaintances who did just that - made a bad decision and stole a couple video games. They could not get out of the felony charge due to the total amount, but served no time. That is ridiculously harsh given the crime. OTOH, I know someone here locally with not one but two DUIs, who lost their license for YEARS, then had to install a breathalyzer in their vehicle to be able to drive. Yet both DUI charges were only misdemeanors.
The laws in VA are harsh and antiquated. Sodomy laws were in affect in VA until 2014, when a supreme court ruling finally invalidated VA's law, and they were repealed by the VA legislature. https://thinkprogress.org/virg...
So I disagree that felons should lose the right to vote, especially given the draconian laws still in affect that results in individuals becoming felons.
The nice thing about these kinds of Slashvertisements is there are at least 1 million other similar marketing changes to other products that could also become Slashdot stories like this one. So there is potentially no end to Slashdot's pool of potential stories, which is so very reassuring.
1954: "Decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet transferring the Crimea Province from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR. Taking into account the integral character of the economy, the territorial proximity and the close economic and cultural ties between the Crimea Province and the Ukrainian SSR, the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet decrees: To approve the joint presentation of the Presidium of the Russian SFSR Supreme Soviet and the Presidium of the Ukrainian SSR Supreme Soviet on the transfer of the Crimea Province from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR."
EA's game servers were down several hours yesterday, affecting dozens of games (I play Simpsons Tapped Out lol). I wonder if this was a DDOS response attack against EA, or if they totally screwed up their access block and ended up blocking everyone?
I see one downside to this, which is heat. Counter intuitively, solar panels are less efficient the warmer they get. That is why solar panel installers always leave an air gap between panels and a roof, to allow airflow under the panels to help cool them. An air gap of 3-5" is recommended. When the panels (in the form of roofing tiles) are laid directly on the roof, not only is 50% of the surface area for cooling lost, but the heat of the attic is also warming them from the below. As anyone who has been on a hot roof in summer knows, roofing shingles get incredibly hot.
This may be offset somewhat by the fact that these shingle style PV cells will cover more surface area of a roof than normal solar panels. However it is definitely a factor, and thus a given square footage of these new tiles cannot be as efficient as the same area of standard PV panels for the heat efficiency factor alone.
Of course it was script kiddies. Why in the world would any state-sponsored group show their hand and blow a single-use resource (the IoT botnet) to accomplish... absolutely nothing at all. Taking down some of the internet for part of a day at a totally non-strategic point in time, with totally non-strategic targets, isn't something any state would do randomly just for fun. This attack was large enough that it triggered many actions to prevent it from happening again. You have Chinese IoT chipset manufacturers doing recalls and patching their code. Pressure is being put on ISPs to help filter these kinds of attacks (it is quite obvious when some large percentage of your customers start engaging in some very abnormal network behavior all at the exact same time). Online providers like Dyn are learning and coming up with ways to prevent future attacks on their end. The only thing the attack accomplished was awareness. No state sponsored organization would have wasted their offensive attack resources like this.
Last year I shopped for a new dev machine (laptop). I decided to be open minded and consider the latest Macbooks as well. There were a few things that completely ruled them out for me, one of the biggest being that the keyboard did not have Home, End, PgUp and PgDn. I realize that there are chording / key combinations to do some of those things, but I already use numerous key combinations with those keys (like navigating to the end of a line vs the end of a document, selecting from the cursor to the end of the document, etc). Any laptop that does not include those 4 keys are totally out of the question for me for development use. Removing the ESC key is obviously, in my mind, yet another step in the wrong direction.
The ironic thing is Macs are pushed as productivity machines for professionals. That is one of the reasons they are supposed to fetch a premium price is because they aren't just "home" machines for the masses. Which makes the stupidity even worse because professionals use advanced tools that use keyboards for more than just typing words.
In case anyone wondered, the other primary hardware issue that eliminated the Macbook was the lack of a touchscreen (necessary for web development these days to debug and test touch interfaces to be consumed on mobile devices).
We still don't have the display technology to make a proper smartwatch. Until we have a watch with a display that is continuously on and active (such as a full-color e-ink display that's at least 30 FPS) that can operate for a minimum of 24 hours continuously on one charge, smart watches are going to be a severe compromise from existing watches (digital or analog). Only those that have use cases that really require them, or that want to bend over backwards to integrate them into their lives, will find them useful enough to bother with.
Look at digital watches. The first generation were LED with red glowing numbers, and they only displayed the time when you pushed a button, otherwise the battery would be dead within an hour. Does that sound familiar? Digital watches did not explode onto the scene until LCD displays matured, which were capable of actively displaying real-time data continuously for months on a single battery. That will be the technology that drives smartwatches - whatever display advancements need to take place to allow continuous full-color, real-time data display with a battery life measured in days. Until then, companies like Apple are putting the cart before the horse and using gimmicks like gestures and the like to try and switch the display on intermittently (and hopefully) when the user is needing to see it.
I always thought this was so silly. In China, they do not call their space travelers Taikonauts. That's an English word. Why should we have different words for an astronaut based on their nationality? If we were talking about a garbageman, no one would bother making up a new English word for that occupation that is specific to each nationality. The whole thing seems like a backwards legacy of the cold war and the original space race, where we wouldn't dare refer to the competition using the same nomenclature used for NASA's astronauts.
I'm replying to myself because I got modded down for a thoughtful, straightforward post about a legitimate scenario, and two of the replies make an interesting assumption. I said nothing about moving production to the USA from the UK. If anything they would move to some other country that is advanced enough to have the required infrastructure, but a government that will side with the producers in order to bring income to their country. I think the Asian market is ripe to start taking this kind of business. They have very large film industries already, and human rights are not something most are known for.
I would say there are more people interested in an ever-changing movie database so they can watch movies they haven't seen or movies they haven't seen in a long time, as opposed to your preference that Netflix simply "maintain their current movie collection". They only have finite money, and they learned the very hard way what happens when they increase their rates. So the only choice is to rotate movies and TV shows in and out of their collection.
So you have a movie filmed in the UK, during which an accident occurred that was avoidable, and that fact alone cost a fortune (shooting was delayed, and it's hard to tell what kind of damages they paid Ford to keep him on board). Now you have the government stepping in and levying a very large fine against the production company on top of everything else. I'm sure this will prompt film makers to have second thoughts about filming in the UK, especially on sound stages like the one involved which can pretty much be done anywhere. I'm not suggesting it was wrong of the government to fine them, I'm just saying that surely it will be something that movie producers will be considering in the future when they decide where to do their shooting.
I also can't help but wonder if the very large fine was the result of the popularity of the movie involved and the amount of money it made.
The last batch of "fixed" phones that have caught on fire have not even been in use. The last few caught fire during the night when hooked up to a charger. They seem to be catching fire around 4 - 5 AM, which assuming the phone was plugged in at midnight of before, should be after the battery is fully charged. So at first blush it would seem the batteries are being overcharged. However, the phone that caught on fire on the airplane was apparently not in use or plugged in. In fact he said he had turned it off and then the fire began.
My hunch is the batteries are being damaged during the charging process, and once that occurs it's just a ticking time bomb before the layers in the battery come into contact and cause a big exothermic chemical reaction. Often it happens right away, but sometimes not until some other physical factor triggers it.
The original batteries that Samsung thought were the problem probably weren't manufactured quite as well, and thus they simply manifested the overcharging problem more easily. The other manufacturer's batteries in the "fixed" phones have slightly better manufacturing, and thus they can simply stand up to the overcharging abuse a bit better, and since it didn't manifest in Samsung's testing, they assumed it was purely a problem with the other batteries.
This is great news! The information density with these 1 nanometer transistors should be such that I can simulate simulate the universe with enough accuracy for sentient beings to eventually come into existence. Eventually they will advance sufficiently enough to question whether or not they are in a simulation, and they will begin efforts to test how accurate my simulation is in order to determine its existence. Then, just when they discover that the simulation is flawed in some way, and thus detectable, I'll pull the plug and start a fresh simulation.
Let's hope this doesn't lead to the typical FAA overreaction and banning of the use of any electronics in flight until they can spend years deciding that it's safe. Like how WiFi devices were going to start causing planes to drop out of the sky. And somehow cellular communication is still suspect (or at least it's suspected that it will result in a reduction of Airline revenue if people can use their own data and make calls in-flight using the standard cellular network).
He's not apologizing. Saying "I'm sorry blank blank blank" doesn't constitute an apology.
I'm really sorry I applied that last series from Andrew
That's not an apology. That's saying he's disappointed someone screwed up, and he named that person to direct the blame towards that person. No dev team I've ever been on would throw someone under the bus like that. We would take responsibility as a team. He might as well say "I'm sorry Andrew sucks as a developer and is so incompetent", because that is no less an apology than what he actually did say.
Now had he said "I'm really sorry I didn't do my job and I didn't properly test contributions, and as the gatekeeper to what code becomes official, I take full responsibility for the bug and I'm taking actions to do my job better in the future", well, that would be an apology.
Yes but did he board the plane there, or was he already on board? If the latter then the phone just got done experiencing a pressure cycle from a flight.
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Yes, and the states have the right to allocate their votes however they want. Most states are all-or-nothing, and all votes go to the winner. Some split their electoral votes. There's no reason a state could not wait until the national popular vote was determined and allocate all their electoral votes in that manner. That is not in violation of the Constitution. The original intent of the Constitution with the EC was not to work the way it does now either - which is letting the citizens choose who gets the electoral vote. So your argument about changing the original intent is not valid. That went out the window a very long time ago.
Personally, I'm curious how it would work if electoral votes were allocated by popular vote within each congressional district. That seems like a fair compromise and middle ground.
In Virginia it is a felony to steal items with a combined value of more than $100. The laws are very harsh in VA. I have two acquaintances who did just that - made a bad decision and stole a couple video games. They could not get out of the felony charge due to the total amount, but served no time. That is ridiculously harsh given the crime. OTOH, I know someone here locally with not one but two DUIs, who lost their license for YEARS, then had to install a breathalyzer in their vehicle to be able to drive. Yet both DUI charges were only misdemeanors.
The laws in VA are harsh and antiquated. Sodomy laws were in affect in VA until 2014, when a supreme court ruling finally invalidated VA's law, and they were repealed by the VA legislature. https://thinkprogress.org/virg...
So I disagree that felons should lose the right to vote, especially given the draconian laws still in affect that results in individuals becoming felons.
As a moderate conservative, I'm still waiting for Rush Limbaugh to move to Costa Rica after Obama got re-elected.
We'll trade you one Rush Limbaugh exodus for one Whoopi Goldberg. Or perhaps a Miley Cyrus.
The nice thing about these kinds of Slashvertisements is there are at least 1 million other similar marketing changes to other products that could also become Slashdot stories like this one. So there is potentially no end to Slashdot's pool of potential stories, which is so very reassuring.
1954:
"Decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet transferring the Crimea Province from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR.
Taking into account the integral character of the economy, the territorial proximity and the close economic and cultural ties between the Crimea Province and the Ukrainian SSR, the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet decrees:
To approve the joint presentation of the Presidium of the Russian SFSR Supreme Soviet and the Presidium of the Ukrainian SSR Supreme Soviet on the transfer of the Crimea Province from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR."
EA's game servers were down several hours yesterday, affecting dozens of games (I play Simpsons Tapped Out lol). I wonder if this was a DDOS response attack against EA, or if they totally screwed up their access block and ended up blocking everyone?
https://twitter.com/AskEASuppo...
I see one downside to this, which is heat. Counter intuitively, solar panels are less efficient the warmer they get. That is why solar panel installers always leave an air gap between panels and a roof, to allow airflow under the panels to help cool them. An air gap of 3-5" is recommended. When the panels (in the form of roofing tiles) are laid directly on the roof, not only is 50% of the surface area for cooling lost, but the heat of the attic is also warming them from the below. As anyone who has been on a hot roof in summer knows, roofing shingles get incredibly hot.
This may be offset somewhat by the fact that these shingle style PV cells will cover more surface area of a roof than normal solar panels. However it is definitely a factor, and thus a given square footage of these new tiles cannot be as efficient as the same area of standard PV panels for the heat efficiency factor alone.
This will integrate seamlessly into the IoT botnet used to take down Dyn the other day!
Of course it was script kiddies. Why in the world would any state-sponsored group show their hand and blow a single-use resource (the IoT botnet) to accomplish... absolutely nothing at all. Taking down some of the internet for part of a day at a totally non-strategic point in time, with totally non-strategic targets, isn't something any state would do randomly just for fun. This attack was large enough that it triggered many actions to prevent it from happening again. You have Chinese IoT chipset manufacturers doing recalls and patching their code. Pressure is being put on ISPs to help filter these kinds of attacks (it is quite obvious when some large percentage of your customers start engaging in some very abnormal network behavior all at the exact same time). Online providers like Dyn are learning and coming up with ways to prevent future attacks on their end. The only thing the attack accomplished was awareness. No state sponsored organization would have wasted their offensive attack resources like this.
Last year I shopped for a new dev machine (laptop). I decided to be open minded and consider the latest Macbooks as well. There were a few things that completely ruled them out for me, one of the biggest being that the keyboard did not have Home, End, PgUp and PgDn. I realize that there are chording / key combinations to do some of those things, but I already use numerous key combinations with those keys (like navigating to the end of a line vs the end of a document, selecting from the cursor to the end of the document, etc). Any laptop that does not include those 4 keys are totally out of the question for me for development use. Removing the ESC key is obviously, in my mind, yet another step in the wrong direction.
The ironic thing is Macs are pushed as productivity machines for professionals. That is one of the reasons they are supposed to fetch a premium price is because they aren't just "home" machines for the masses. Which makes the stupidity even worse because professionals use advanced tools that use keyboards for more than just typing words.
In case anyone wondered, the other primary hardware issue that eliminated the Macbook was the lack of a touchscreen (necessary for web development these days to debug and test touch interfaces to be consumed on mobile devices).
We still don't have the display technology to make a proper smartwatch. Until we have a watch with a display that is continuously on and active (such as a full-color e-ink display that's at least 30 FPS) that can operate for a minimum of 24 hours continuously on one charge, smart watches are going to be a severe compromise from existing watches (digital or analog). Only those that have use cases that really require them, or that want to bend over backwards to integrate them into their lives, will find them useful enough to bother with.
Look at digital watches. The first generation were LED with red glowing numbers, and they only displayed the time when you pushed a button, otherwise the battery would be dead within an hour. Does that sound familiar? Digital watches did not explode onto the scene until LCD displays matured, which were capable of actively displaying real-time data continuously for months on a single battery. That will be the technology that drives smartwatches - whatever display advancements need to take place to allow continuous full-color, real-time data display with a battery life measured in days. Until then, companies like Apple are putting the cart before the horse and using gimmicks like gestures and the like to try and switch the display on intermittently (and hopefully) when the user is needing to see it.
I always thought this was so silly. In China, they do not call their space travelers Taikonauts. That's an English word. Why should we have different words for an astronaut based on their nationality? If we were talking about a garbageman, no one would bother making up a new English word for that occupation that is specific to each nationality. The whole thing seems like a backwards legacy of the cold war and the original space race, where we wouldn't dare refer to the competition using the same nomenclature used for NASA's astronauts.
I'm replying to myself because I got modded down for a thoughtful, straightforward post about a legitimate scenario, and two of the replies make an interesting assumption. I said nothing about moving production to the USA from the UK. If anything they would move to some other country that is advanced enough to have the required infrastructure, but a government that will side with the producers in order to bring income to their country. I think the Asian market is ripe to start taking this kind of business. They have very large film industries already, and human rights are not something most are known for.
Came to post this video clip but you beat me to the reference. Here's the clip anyway....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I would say there are more people interested in an ever-changing movie database so they can watch movies they haven't seen or movies they haven't seen in a long time, as opposed to your preference that Netflix simply "maintain their current movie collection". They only have finite money, and they learned the very hard way what happens when they increase their rates. So the only choice is to rotate movies and TV shows in and out of their collection.
So you have a movie filmed in the UK, during which an accident occurred that was avoidable, and that fact alone cost a fortune (shooting was delayed, and it's hard to tell what kind of damages they paid Ford to keep him on board). Now you have the government stepping in and levying a very large fine against the production company on top of everything else. I'm sure this will prompt film makers to have second thoughts about filming in the UK, especially on sound stages like the one involved which can pretty much be done anywhere. I'm not suggesting it was wrong of the government to fine them, I'm just saying that surely it will be something that movie producers will be considering in the future when they decide where to do their shooting.
I also can't help but wonder if the very large fine was the result of the popularity of the movie involved and the amount of money it made.
It would be safer if the devices were frozen in carbonite for return shipping.
The controls for that game are horrible. If it took more than a day and $500 to create then taxpayers should be ticked.
The last batch of "fixed" phones that have caught on fire have not even been in use. The last few caught fire during the night when hooked up to a charger. They seem to be catching fire around 4 - 5 AM, which assuming the phone was plugged in at midnight of before, should be after the battery is fully charged. So at first blush it would seem the batteries are being overcharged. However, the phone that caught on fire on the airplane was apparently not in use or plugged in. In fact he said he had turned it off and then the fire began.
My hunch is the batteries are being damaged during the charging process, and once that occurs it's just a ticking time bomb before the layers in the battery come into contact and cause a big exothermic chemical reaction. Often it happens right away, but sometimes not until some other physical factor triggers it.
The original batteries that Samsung thought were the problem probably weren't manufactured quite as well, and thus they simply manifested the overcharging problem more easily. The other manufacturer's batteries in the "fixed" phones have slightly better manufacturing, and thus they can simply stand up to the overcharging abuse a bit better, and since it didn't manifest in Samsung's testing, they assumed it was purely a problem with the other batteries.
This is great news! The information density with these 1 nanometer transistors should be such that I can simulate simulate the universe with enough accuracy for sentient beings to eventually come into existence. Eventually they will advance sufficiently enough to question whether or not they are in a simulation, and they will begin efforts to test how accurate my simulation is in order to determine its existence. Then, just when they discover that the simulation is flawed in some way, and thus detectable, I'll pull the plug and start a fresh simulation.
Let's hope this doesn't lead to the typical FAA overreaction and banning of the use of any electronics in flight until they can spend years deciding that it's safe. Like how WiFi devices were going to start causing planes to drop out of the sky. And somehow cellular communication is still suspect (or at least it's suspected that it will result in a reduction of Airline revenue if people can use their own data and make calls in-flight using the standard cellular network).
Yes, you're exactly right. Because it's not like Slashdot has ever had a Bigfoot story back in its heyday.
Yeah, it's definitely not a bear. Bears' forearms cannot swing back behind their body. It's a human or in the primate family.
He's not apologizing. Saying "I'm sorry blank blank blank" doesn't constitute an apology.
I'm really sorry I applied that last series from Andrew
That's not an apology. That's saying he's disappointed someone screwed up, and he named that person to direct the blame towards that person. No dev team I've ever been on would throw someone under the bus like that. We would take responsibility as a team. He might as well say "I'm sorry Andrew sucks as a developer and is so incompetent", because that is no less an apology than what he actually did say.
Now had he said "I'm really sorry I didn't do my job and I didn't properly test contributions, and as the gatekeeper to what code becomes official, I take full responsibility for the bug and I'm taking actions to do my job better in the future", well, that would be an apology.
Yes but did he board the plane there, or was he already on board? If the latter then the phone just got done experiencing a pressure cycle from a flight.