The problem they're talking about is energy distribution, not generation.
That's absolutely correct. However, since people will tend to charge their cars at off-peak hours, you'd think that the distrubution issues are less than they are making out. Sure, it's like adding hundreds of additional houses, but most of those "houses" are going to be charging at a time when all the lights and appliances are off in the real houses because everyone is asleep.
Measures were taken so that all the USB connections of his followers were exchanged for common connections and even the Bluetooth (sic), which according to Saldanha Welder is permitted, for "Blue was the color of the eyes of our savior Jesus Christ".
I was also wondering about the above quote. I don't recall anything in the Bible about Jesus having blue eyes. I kind of always assumed he had brown eyes, since most, though not all, people of Jewish heritage have brown eyes. Is a blue-eyed-Jesus supported Biblically?
Let's be honest. 95% of the population doesn't even know what a Nomad was and if at this point you explained it to them, they'd say "Oh, like an iPod?"
but it could also greatly reduce light pollution in major cities...
Uh, what? Light pollution is just the effect of using lights at night. It doesn't matter whether the light comes from a streetlight or a tree; it's still light pollution.
Saanen has a population (as of 31 December 2009) of 7,053.
Saanen is a very small town. I looked at it on the satellite maps. It only has one stream, which runs strait through the town.
How about someone else find the tractor dealership? I tried Google maps, but couldn't find it.
1. Buy Old Abandoned Nuclear Silo
2. Put Server Farm in Nuclear Silo
3. Wait for Free Promotion of Services to Appear on Slashdot, Because They Run a Batcave Article Like This Every Few Months!
4. Profit!!!
"CAUSE executive director Neil Schwartzman, in a post on CircleID, urges governments and law enforcement to treat cyber crime as what it really is: 'crime': 'When someone is mugged, harassed, kidnapped or raped on a sidewalk, we don't call it "sidewalk crime" and call for new laws to regulate sidewalks. It is crime, and those who commit crimes are subject to the full force of the law. For too long, people have referred to spam in dismissive terms: just hit delete, some say, or let the filters take care of it. Others — most of us, in fact — refer to phishing, which is the first step in theft of real money from real people and institutions, as "cyber crime." It's time for that to stop... This isn't just email. This isn't a war. This isn't "cyber." This is crime.'"
Great idea. It will happen about the same time that "white collar crimes" are treated the same as mugging or burglary.
Yes, totally "great" idea because:
When I get a grocery circular in the mail, that isn't junkmail: it's a serious crime called spam.
When someone talks about me or to me in a way I don't like, that isn't free speech: it's a serious crime called cyberstallking/cyberbullying.
Can we stop criminalizing every little behavior under the sun? Personally, I think Moses had one thing right. Ten laws are way better than several thousand. Now if we could only get around to solving problems instead of criminalizing problems—there is a huge difference between the two.
It also brings to light the simple fact that you cannot give away unlimited amounts of something for a fixed price forever, eventually any system that tries will come crashing down.
Unlimited plans are not giving unlimited amounts of data. The data limit is fixed by the bandwidth speed. Additionally, you can give away "unlimited" amounts of something for a fixed price forever. Have you never been to an all you can eat buffet?
All you do is make a statistical analysis of the cost you have to charge for all typical users, both light users and heavy users together, to make a profit. It works the same way as an all you can eat buffet, well except of course if they tried to charge fat people extra at a buffet people might actually care.
Should I be worrying about the oncoming collapse of the Chinese buffet market? No. I'd say that would make the best policy for the Internet is "Let them eat cake," but we all know the cake is a like.
I couldn't find it either, but it may not even be in the online version, that website is very hard to search and the English search wasn't even working when I tried. It could even be some paper-only editorial or something. However, I did find this gem of an article:
According to Taiwan's "News Today" reports, you have a sphincter to blame, which led in public could not help you live "discouraged" embarrassing experience? Colorado man Buck - Weimer invented the world's first "anti-fart underwear", which has the function of filtering cocky, wear it even if the non-stop farting, people will not smell the next.
How come Slashdot keeps posting stuff about Linux? Where are our Apple-related news? Lion, iLife '11, FaceTime for Mac and new MacBook Air notebooks were announced yesterday! We never speak about Apple it's always Linux, Linux, Linux! *
* for the slow-minded, this is a parody of the "Apple news again? We never get any Linux news!" posts. As long as it's not freakin' Microsoft, I'm fine with it.
Here, I'll make an Apple user feel right at home:
The newest version of Linux, Snow Penguin, has been released and this changes everything! This version includes support for the Tilera architecture, a beautiful new filesystem notification interface called iNotify, Spacewarp local caching, support for Intel Intelligent Power Sharing so your computer will otomaticaly [spelled correctly] turn off unused appliances in your house to save you thousands of dollars in power bills every year, developer improvements and a revolutionary AppArmor security system. It's speedy. It works–better. See the full keynote for more details.
How come Slashdot keeps posting stuff about Linux? Where are our Apple-related news? Lion, iLife '11, FaceTime for Mac and new MacBook Air notebooks were announced yesterday! We never speak about Apple it's always Linux, Linux, Linux! *
* for the slow-minded, this is a parody of the "Apple news again? We never get any Linux news!" posts. As long as it's not freakin' Microsoft, I'm fine with it.
Here, I'll make an Apple user feel right at home:
The newest version of Linux, Snow Penguin, has been released and this changes everything! This version includes support for the Tilera architecture, a beautiful new filesystem notification interface called iNotify, Spacewarp local caching, support for Intel Intelligent Power Sharing so your computer will otomaticaly [spelled correctly] turn off unused appliances in your house to save you thousands of dollars in power bills every year, developer improvements and a revolutionary AppArmor security system. It's speedy. It works–better. See the full keynote for more details.
It updated while I slept and I was reading the article in Chrome 7.
What?!
Yes, Chrome does that.
No offence buddy, but you wrote "it" updated while you were sleeping AND reading the article. Sleeping and thinking I can manage. But I bow to you for reading with your eyes closed.
Okay, so it should be: It updated while I slept, and I was reading the article in Chrome 7.
It's a sink... and some water coming out of the faucet. There is no mystery here and it isn't related to a black hole. Let's keep things in perspective. Analogies are great, especially car analogies, but a small wave of water in my sink is not analogous to the event horizon of a black hole any more than my garbage disposal is analogous to the rest of the black hole.
What are you talking about? This idea was completely brilliant. If physics has shown us anything, it is that the mysterious and the commonplace are often inexorably linked. I read what you just said like this:
It's an piece of turf... and an apple falling from a tree. There is no mystery here and it isn't related to our planet going round the sun. Let's keep things in perspective. Analogies are great, especially car analogies, but a small piece of fruit on a tree is not analogous to a planet circling round a sun any more than my garbage disposal is analogous to the rest of the solar system.
I sort of hope they do, because the way Apple plays things, you'd know at the next "big thing" event we'd get a less bloated, faster Photoshop clone. Honestly, Apple could probably merge Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign into one speedy app: iDesign.
Doesn't something seem wrong with the response of the foreigner who informed on him. Wouldn't the proper response be to say something like, "we value transparent relations with the US and wouldn't want to jeopardize them" instead of turning over the man's emails to the US.
Think of this in reverse. Let's say the man worked for Baidu, the Chinese Internet search engine and his loyalty was to the US. The man emails a member of the US government saying, if they wanted help he'd be willing to help them out. Now, wouldn't it then seem really wrong to then turn over that man's emails to the Chinese government so they could use them to trap him in some set up?
Shouldn't the US or anyone else in that situation just say "thanks, but no thanks" instead of starting these cloak and dagger games?
One problem is that "information" is largely supposed to make things easier by giving you access to something that was already done: someone else already went out there and collected meticulous information on frog populations, so it's easier to get access to that information than go out and count frogs yourself. But as information multiplies, sometimes it really is easier to just count the damn frogs instead of making sense of the voluminous and often inconsistent frog literature.
Diderot noticed this in 1755, in a famous passage:
"As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes."
I disagree. What we actually find is that paragons are held up and improved upon and our search skills have exceeded what Diderot expected. Diderot foresaw in a library of a billion books that if you wanted to know how tall the local mountain was, it may actually be faster to simply go to the local mountain and plot it's height than to actually wade through all those books for the precise piece of information.
However, in reality, it didn't end up like that at all. We type "What is the height of Blue Mountain?" in Google and the first link spits out "2320 feet." It isn't faster at all to go examine nature for myself. If anything in spite of increased information our speed of going through books has been amplified to an even greater degree.
And as for frogs. There probably are paragon studies of them, best-done studies. There are also probably studies where people spent 20 years studying local frog populations and things do time-consuming and in depth that it would take a whole life to replicate, but which can be called up on a whim in seconds.
Don't forget that some people don't have the same government as yourself, therefore I cannot comment on what your government has/hasn't done with this technology.
Mind enlightening us on your particular government's use/non-use of UAV's?
I find it strange that that thing says it supports OS X when I can't think of a single machine it would even fit in. The towers don't have 5.25" bays like that and the rest of the line doesn't have bays at all.
Slashdot Mirror
Insightful, but grammatically atrocious.
The problem they're talking about is energy distribution, not generation.
That's absolutely correct. However, since people will tend to charge their cars at off-peak hours, you'd think that the distrubution issues are less than they are making out. Sure, it's like adding hundreds of additional houses, but most of those "houses" are going to be charging at a time when all the lights and appliances are off in the real houses because everyone is asleep.
Measures were taken so that all the USB connections of his followers were exchanged for common connections and even the Bluetooth (sic), which according to Saldanha Welder is permitted, for "Blue was the color of the eyes of our savior Jesus Christ".
I was also wondering about the above quote. I don't recall anything in the Bible about Jesus having blue eyes. I kind of always assumed he had brown eyes, since most, though not all, people of Jewish heritage have brown eyes. Is a blue-eyed-Jesus supported Biblically?
Let's be honest. 95% of the population doesn't even know what a Nomad was and if at this point you explained it to them, they'd say "Oh, like an iPod?"
Not only would it save on electricity costs...
True.
and cut CO2 emissions...
True.
but it could also greatly reduce light pollution in major cities...
Uh, what? Light pollution is just the effect of using lights at night. It doesn't matter whether the light comes from a streetlight or a tree; it's still light pollution.
Saanen has a population (as of 31 December 2009) of 7,053.
Saanen is a very small town. I looked at it on the satellite maps. It only has one stream, which runs strait through the town.
How about someone else find the tractor dealership? I tried Google maps, but couldn't find it.
1. Buy Old Abandoned Nuclear Silo
2. Put Server Farm in Nuclear Silo
3. Wait for Free Promotion of Services to Appear on Slashdot, Because They Run a Batcave Article Like This Every Few Months!
4. Profit!!!
"CAUSE executive director Neil Schwartzman, in a post on CircleID, urges governments and law enforcement to treat cyber crime as what it really is: 'crime': 'When someone is mugged, harassed, kidnapped or raped on a sidewalk, we don't call it "sidewalk crime" and call for new laws to regulate sidewalks. It is crime, and those who commit crimes are subject to the full force of the law. For too long, people have referred to spam in dismissive terms: just hit delete, some say, or let the filters take care of it. Others — most of us, in fact — refer to phishing, which is the first step in theft of real money from real people and institutions, as "cyber crime." It's time for that to stop... This isn't just email. This isn't a war. This isn't "cyber." This is crime.'"
Great idea. It will happen about the same time that "white collar crimes" are treated the same as mugging or burglary.
Yes, totally "great" idea because:
When I get a grocery circular in the mail, that isn't junkmail: it's a serious crime called spam.
When someone talks about me or to me in a way I don't like, that isn't free speech: it's a serious crime called cyberstallking/cyberbullying.
Can we stop criminalizing every little behavior under the sun? Personally, I think Moses had one thing right. Ten laws are way better than several thousand. Now if we could only get around to solving problems instead of criminalizing problems—there is a huge difference between the two.
It also brings to light the simple fact that you cannot give away unlimited amounts of something for a fixed price forever, eventually any system that tries will come crashing down.
Unlimited plans are not giving unlimited amounts of data. The data limit is fixed by the bandwidth speed. Additionally, you can give away "unlimited" amounts of something for a fixed price forever. Have you never been to an all you can eat buffet?
All you do is make a statistical analysis of the cost you have to charge for all typical users, both light users and heavy users together, to make a profit. It works the same way as an all you can eat buffet, well except of course if they tried to charge fat people extra at a buffet people might actually care.
Should I be worrying about the oncoming collapse of the Chinese buffet market? No. I'd say that would make the best policy for the Internet is "Let them eat cake," but we all know the cake is a like.
I couldn't find it either, but it may not even be in the online version, that website is very hard to search and the English search wasn't even working when I tried. It could even be some paper-only editorial or something. However, I did find this gem of an article:
Handsome man invented the world's first pieces of "anti-fart underwear" to filter cocky
According to Taiwan's "News Today" reports, you have a sphincter to blame, which led in public could not help you live "discouraged" embarrassing experience? Colorado man Buck - Weimer invented the world's first "anti-fart underwear", which has the function of filtering cocky, wear it even if the non-stop farting, people will not smell the next.
How come Slashdot keeps posting stuff about Linux? Where are our Apple-related news? Lion, iLife '11, FaceTime for Mac and new MacBook Air notebooks were announced yesterday! We never speak about Apple it's always Linux, Linux, Linux! *
* for the slow-minded, this is a parody of the "Apple news again? We never get any Linux news!" posts. As long as it's not freakin' Microsoft, I'm fine with it.
Here, I'll make an Apple user feel right at home: The newest version of Linux, Snow Penguin, has been released and this changes everything! This version includes support for the Tilera architecture, a beautiful new filesystem notification interface called iNotify, Spacewarp local caching, support for Intel Intelligent Power Sharing so your computer will otomaticaly [spelled correctly] turn off unused appliances in your house to save you thousands of dollars in power bills every year, developer improvements and a revolutionary AppArmor security system. It's speedy. It works–better. See the full keynote for more details.
Dammit...I forgot to call it "magic."
How come Slashdot keeps posting stuff about Linux? Where are our Apple-related news? Lion, iLife '11, FaceTime for Mac and new MacBook Air notebooks were announced yesterday! We never speak about Apple it's always Linux, Linux, Linux! *
* for the slow-minded, this is a parody of the "Apple news again? We never get any Linux news!" posts. As long as it's not freakin' Microsoft, I'm fine with it.
Here, I'll make an Apple user feel right at home:
The newest version of Linux, Snow Penguin, has been released and this changes everything! This version includes support for the Tilera architecture, a beautiful new filesystem notification interface called iNotify, Spacewarp local caching, support for Intel Intelligent Power Sharing so your computer will otomaticaly [spelled correctly] turn off unused appliances in your house to save you thousands of dollars in power bills every year, developer improvements and a revolutionary AppArmor security system. It's speedy. It works–better. See the full keynote for more details.
It updated while I slept and I was reading the article in Chrome 7.
What?!
Yes, Chrome does that.
No offence buddy, but you wrote "it" updated while you were sleeping AND reading the article. Sleeping and thinking I can manage. But I bow to you for reading with your eyes closed.
Okay, so it should be: It updated while I slept, and I was reading the article in Chrome 7.
Comma-police arrest this man.
Question: can Chrome lose the HAL Simon mascot please?
Answer: I can't do that Dave.
P.S. In all seriousness I don't like the default icon either as it was too distractingly colorful. I switched it to this one, called Chrome Z-Edition.
I read this news item and said to myself "Oh, Chrome 7 is out. Maybe I should go get it."
Then I realized I already had it. It updated while I slept and I was reading the article in Chrome 7.
It's a sink ... and some water coming out of the faucet. There is no mystery here and it isn't related to a black hole. Let's keep things in perspective. Analogies are great, especially car analogies, but a small wave of water in my sink is not analogous to the event horizon of a black hole any more than my garbage disposal is analogous to the rest of the black hole.
What are you talking about? This idea was completely brilliant. If physics has shown us anything, it is that the mysterious and the commonplace are often inexorably linked. I read what you just said like this:
It's an piece of turf... and an apple falling from a tree. There is no mystery here and it isn't related to our planet going round the sun. Let's keep things in perspective. Analogies are great, especially car analogies, but a small piece of fruit on a tree is not analogous to a planet circling round a sun any more than my garbage disposal is analogous to the rest of the solar system.
Except...it is.
I for one welcome our new spider-worm overlords.
I sort of hope they do, because the way Apple plays things, you'd know at the next "big thing" event we'd get a less bloated, faster Photoshop clone. Honestly, Apple could probably merge Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign into one speedy app: iDesign.
Doesn't something seem wrong with the response of the foreigner who informed on him. Wouldn't the proper response be to say something like, "we value transparent relations with the US and wouldn't want to jeopardize them" instead of turning over the man's emails to the US.
Think of this in reverse. Let's say the man worked for Baidu, the Chinese Internet search engine and his loyalty was to the US. The man emails a member of the US government saying, if they wanted help he'd be willing to help them out. Now, wouldn't it then seem really wrong to then turn over that man's emails to the Chinese government so they could use them to trap him in some set up?
Shouldn't the US or anyone else in that situation just say "thanks, but no thanks" instead of starting these cloak and dagger games?
You forgot the punctuation!
Iris Scanning Set to "Secure" City in Mexico
There, fixed that for ya.
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
One problem is that "information" is largely supposed to make things easier by giving you access to something that was already done: someone else already went out there and collected meticulous information on frog populations, so it's easier to get access to that information than go out and count frogs yourself. But as information multiplies, sometimes it really is easier to just count the damn frogs instead of making sense of the voluminous and often inconsistent frog literature. Diderot noticed this in 1755, in a famous passage:
"As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes."
I disagree. What we actually find is that paragons are held up and improved upon and our search skills have exceeded what Diderot expected. Diderot foresaw in a library of a billion books that if you wanted to know how tall the local mountain was, it may actually be faster to simply go to the local mountain and plot it's height than to actually wade through all those books for the precise piece of information.
However, in reality, it didn't end up like that at all. We type "What is the height of Blue Mountain?" in Google and the first link spits out "2320 feet." It isn't faster at all to go examine nature for myself. If anything in spite of increased information our speed of going through books has been amplified to an even greater degree.
And as for frogs. There probably are paragon studies of them, best-done studies. There are also probably studies where people spent 20 years studying local frog populations and things do time-consuming and in depth that it would take a whole life to replicate, but which can be called up on a whim in seconds.
Diderot was really, really wrong.
Don't forget that some people don't have the same government as yourself, therefore I cannot comment on what your government has/hasn't done with this technology.
Mind enlightening us on your particular government's use/non-use of UAV's?
And of course there will be situations where government uses private services to snoop on your private property, which are sort of in the middle.
I find it strange that that thing says it supports OS X when I can't think of a single machine it would even fit in. The towers don't have 5.25" bays like that and the rest of the line doesn't have bays at all.