If they really wanted to help things, they'd invest the money in more charging stations (here in the US) for EVs (and push for a standard, like Tesla releasing their patents for their advanced charging system). People aren't going to spend money (or not a lot of people) on vehicles they can't actually charge very many places. Until a more country-wide infrastructure is in place, *most* people are going to stick with vehicles they can actually "fuel up" anywhere.
I presume you mean unlike the US's own inflammatory warmongering propaganda? Not like it stopped just because "Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc" aren't around. So are you implying it's "ok for us but not for them"? Or neither is acceptable? And, if the latter, well, living in the US I can't do anything about *them*, but in theory I have a voice about *us* doing it (and yes, you can start laughing at that idea now, because we really don't anymore do we?)
I'm pretty sure it landing is the idea, and once it's landed you really don't need the black box data. The black box is there so there's some record of what happened when it *doesn't* land again (or, well, not in the 'intended controlled manner' at any rate).
Air-To-Ground (ATG) Gogo's ATG network is a cellular based network that has more than 160 towers in the continental U.S., Alaska and soon, Canada. The towers are cellphone towers that have been outfitted to point their signals at the sky rather than along the ground. The aircraft picks up the signal through a receiver installed on its underside. When it reaches the aircraft, the data signal is distributed throughout the cabin via a Wi-Fi system.
Great, so while you're busy coming up with a plan to put up cell towers in the middle of the Atlantic & Pacific oceans, as well as across the other countries/continents besides the US, we'll keep using black boxes ok?
Nah, they're just "right sizing" them to make room for the greater numbers of H1-Bs they're lobbying for... because there's a lack of "qualified" people.
Ukraine has no long-range air defence missile systems in this area.
Most likely the separatists did shoot it down accidently. But that statement is complete and utter BS. The Ukraine has Russian BUK and other Russian Anti missle/air defense systems throughout the region because they are supposedly scared of a Russian invasion.
I agree, the separatists shooting it down wouldn't surprise me. But yeah, the UA not having air defense in the area is a crock, especially if they're talking about Russia 'violating their airspace', of *course* they'd want to have some air defense - they'd probably love to knock a Russian fighter down in Ukrainian airspace.
And in both cases the planes in question had *violated their sovereign airspace*, which this plane did not.
Forgive me,but I'm willing to bet, especially post-9/11, if a jetliner violated US airspace and didn't respond to contact attempts by fighters scrambled up to it, the US would probably do the same... we wouldn't want that next attack to be in the form of a mushroom cloud, from a device planted in an unresponsive civilian airliner, would we?
And those even older may remember Korean Air Lines Flight 007 and Korean Air Lines Flight 902 (both shot down by the Soviet Union). It seems they have done it again.
Both KAL 007 and KAL 902 were off course. At the moment this looks more like Iran Air 655 with a civil aircraft on course exactly where they had every reason to be.
Not only were both off course, both were in Soviet airspace, and both did not respond to contact attempts. This flight, to all appearances, was not in Russian airspace, but over Ukraine.
ATLAS "sees" trillions of collisions, but they can't possibly save the data from all of them, so they have algorithms that evaluate them quickly and save the 'interesting' ones, while tossing away the results from a large number of them. Thus "trillions" of collisions may only result in billions of "interesting" enough results to save.
As opposed to gold, which has never seen the price move.
This. Gold is exceptionally volatile, and basing an economy on it is not a wise move.
The idea that fiat currency is somehow less stable than gold is not proven out by the facts. If a person were to check out the dates of depressions and recessions, at least in the US, they will quickly see that the economy is actually more stable after we left the gold standard.
Actually, it's quite easy to argue that the gold price fluctuations are not volatility in the price of gold, but in the value of the dollar (or whatever currency you are comparing it to).
Only four countries in the world — Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand — were exempt from the agreement, due to existing no-spying agreements
That needs to be corrected... only four countries in the world think they are exempt due to existing no-spying agreements, which the NSA is most certainly, in reality, paying no attention to.
I think national standards are the entire problem. We shouldn't have national standards. For one, we're a nation of some 300-plus million people distributed across 50 states, with varying geography, cultures, industries, and so forth. Why would anyone think one size should fit all? It's funny how there is so much talk about "diversity" all the time and how great it is, but heaven forbid there should be diversity in education in this country. The federal government has no business in education. But apart from all that, centralization in a country like this poses another problem. It gives a single pressure point for every kind of political or ideological fad or bent. Anyone with an axe to grind, a chip on his or her shoulder, or just a run-of-the-mill "I know better than thou" complex has but a single pressure point to grab hold of to bend the country to his or her will. Today you may like who is behind this push for a de facto national curriculum. But tomorrow you may not be. What happens then?
I'm for competition, diversity, innovation, and freedom. The Common Core is antithetical to all that.
I'm all for that. So my schools can hold up to the 'standard' that kids exiting 6th grade should be able to add/subtract/multiply/divide numbers, and have basic English skills - and your schools, well, if your state/city/town doesn't think that's important then so be it, your kids can graduate HS thinking "smart peepul are loosers, who kares what 12% of 100 is, heck, 12/100 is what them calcoolaters are fer, if yah really needed too y'no. I have mah freedum."
We'll see who's kids do better with the real-world job competition and diversity, and who can innovate.
The comparison to pop is a little more sensible. However, even the "sugary drinks" ban people were talking about was nothing like prohibition -- it essentially banned selling in a large cup, without banning bottomless refills. I still think it wasn't quite right, but you're the only one talking about blanket bans. Or children, for that matter.
So should we be banning 1.75L bottles of alcohol? Perhaps we should ban 16oz 'tall boy' beers, and only sell 12oz or less beers, and limit hard liquor to.75L bottles or less?
protocals. They need to adhere to the Federal Enterprise Architecture Data Reference Model.
That is obviously misnamed, Data and Reference need to be reversed, so it's the "Federal Enterprise Architecture Reference Data Model", or to shorten it the "FEAR Data Model".
I pay cash all the time pretty much - the two things I don't are for rare online purchases, and filling up the car with gas (I use the CC for convenience). The worrisome thing for me might be the grocery store, using my "preferred customer" card for discounts and such, which means they can tie all my food purchases to me, so if I get frozen pizza that could be a problem. Take-out though, I drive there and pay cash, always.
So if they force disclosure of a password and the data that was "known" to be on there isn't there, do you get to sue for violation of your fifth amendment rights?
Well, the more important question is: what about things on there that they didn't know about beforehand?
In other words, say they know this guy has documentation on mortgage fraud - ok, legally if they know he has specific documentation on there maybe they can force him to unlock it. But, for the sake of argument, say this involves the Russian mob and part of what is on the hard drive would implicate him in an as-yet unsolved (or uninvestigated as "natural causes/accidental") murder? If they compel him to unlock the drive for the "financial data" and they find proof of his complicity in a murder, is that grounds to charge him with conspiracy to commit murder, a charge they wouldn't have had any knowledge or proof of before then? Or, what if they find kiddie porn on it, can they then charge him with kiddie porn trafficing? Or is that then "fruit from the poisonous tree" gained illegally and not able to be used against him?
The easy solution here, of course, is a court judgment that he cannot be charged with any new crimes based on what it revealed on the hard drive, or even simpler - finding him "guilty" based on the evidence you claim is already enough to prove he is guilty, and then offering him leniency on sentencing for those charges if he unlocks the drive to allow future investigations into others involved (or "turning him into an informant" basically).
Can't wait for our Utility Overlords to dictate no lighting when I go take a piss at 3:00 am for the good of the hivemind.
Just the opposite, 3AM is a low usage time in most places - they'll dictate that when the motion sensor goes off that you are walking into the bathroom, every light in your house goes on, and the temperature on the 'fridge goes down a few degrees to chill that late-night snack you're going to surely be getting soon.
I always wonder the same that I wonder in this case: If that actually worked, why do they tell you (or, in this case, build it for you) instead of simply using it themselves?
From what I understand, ALL the mining ASIC manufacturers are being accused of using the machines for a good while before shipping them out, which is what is causing the prevalent shipping delays.
Well, they have to do some "quality assurance" testing to ensure they work properly, right?
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If they really wanted to help things, they'd invest the money in more charging stations (here in the US) for EVs (and push for a standard, like Tesla releasing their patents for their advanced charging system). People aren't going to spend money (or not a lot of people) on vehicles they can't actually charge very many places. Until a more country-wide infrastructure is in place, *most* people are going to stick with vehicles they can actually "fuel up" anywhere.
There are now reports of monitored chatter among the separatists where they figured out it was civilian instead of military after the shoot down.
Yup. And you can listen to it yourself here, complete with subtitles.
Slashdot readers who speak English and Russian are invited to comment on the quality of the translation.
Or it could just be a few hired CIA foreign language specialists reading from a script... but hey, we wouldn't do that, would we?
I presume you mean unlike the US's own inflammatory warmongering propaganda?
Not like it stopped just because "Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc" aren't around.
So are you implying it's "ok for us but not for them"? Or neither is acceptable?
And, if the latter, well, living in the US I can't do anything about *them*, but in theory I have a voice about *us* doing it (and yes, you can start laughing at that idea now, because we really don't anymore do we?)
You only have to the data until it lands...
I'm pretty sure it landing is the idea, and once it's landed you really don't need the black box data.
The black box is there so there's some record of what happened when it *doesn't* land again (or, well, not in the 'intended controlled manner' at any rate).
Air-To-Ground (ATG) Gogo's ATG network is a cellular based network that has more than 160 towers in the continental U.S., Alaska and soon, Canada. The towers are cellphone towers that have been outfitted to point their signals at the sky rather than along the ground. The aircraft picks up the signal through a receiver installed on its underside. When it reaches the aircraft, the data signal is distributed throughout the cabin via a Wi-Fi system.
Great, so while you're busy coming up with a plan to put up cell towers in the middle of the Atlantic & Pacific oceans, as well as across the other countries/continents besides the US, we'll keep using black boxes ok?
Oooh... 1400 linux servers infected? Um, out of how many on the internet?!?
Nah, they're just "right sizing" them to make room for the greater numbers of H1-Bs they're lobbying for... because there's a lack of "qualified" people.
Ukraine has no long-range air defence missile systems in this area.
Most likely the separatists did shoot it down accidently. But that statement is complete and utter BS. The Ukraine has Russian BUK and other Russian Anti missle/air defense systems throughout the region because they are supposedly scared of a Russian invasion.
I agree, the separatists shooting it down wouldn't surprise me. But yeah, the UA not having air defense in the area is a crock, especially if they're talking about Russia 'violating their airspace', of *course* they'd want to have some air defense - they'd probably love to knock a Russian fighter down in Ukrainian airspace.
And in both cases the planes in question had *violated their sovereign airspace*, which this plane did not.
Forgive me,but I'm willing to bet, especially post-9/11, if a jetliner violated US airspace and didn't respond to contact attempts by fighters scrambled up to it, the US would probably do the same... we wouldn't want that next attack to be in the form of a mushroom cloud, from a device planted in an unresponsive civilian airliner, would we?
And those even older may remember Korean Air Lines Flight 007 and Korean Air Lines Flight 902 (both shot down by the Soviet Union). It seems they have done it again.
Both KAL 007 and KAL 902 were off course. At the moment this looks more like Iran Air 655 with a civil aircraft on course exactly where they had every reason to be.
Not only were both off course, both were in Soviet airspace, and both did not respond to contact attempts. This flight, to all appearances, was not in Russian airspace, but over Ukraine.
Plumbing, carpentry, furnace repair, A/C repair... they'll always break eventually and need repair.
Real hands-on things that can't be "offshored".
Reactor 4 spent fuel cooling pool contains 1500 spent Mox fuel rods.
Correction, contained. It now has less than 400 as they've been removing them.
Reactor 4 spent fuel pool status
ATLAS "sees" trillions of collisions, but they can't possibly save the data from all of them, so they have algorithms that evaluate them quickly and save the 'interesting' ones, while tossing away the results from a large number of them. Thus "trillions" of collisions may only result in billions of "interesting" enough results to save.
As opposed to gold, which has never seen the price move.
This. Gold is exceptionally volatile, and basing an economy on it is not a wise move.
The idea that fiat currency is somehow less stable than gold is not proven out by the facts. If a person were to check out the dates of depressions and recessions, at least in the US, they will quickly see that the economy is actually more stable after we left the gold standard.
Actually, it's quite easy to argue that the gold price fluctuations are not volatility in the price of gold, but in the value of the dollar (or whatever currency you are comparing it to).
If we could get the hired at MS maybe windows could run on a 256M machine. :P
Only four countries in the world — Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand — were exempt from the agreement, due to existing no-spying agreements
That needs to be corrected... only four countries in the world think they are exempt due to existing no-spying agreements, which the NSA is most certainly, in reality, paying no attention to.
I think national standards are the entire problem. We shouldn't have national standards. For one, we're a nation of some 300-plus million people distributed across 50 states, with varying geography, cultures, industries, and so forth. Why would anyone think one size should fit all? It's funny how there is so much talk about "diversity" all the time and how great it is, but heaven forbid there should be diversity in education in this country. The federal government has no business in education. But apart from all that, centralization in a country like this poses another problem. It gives a single pressure point for every kind of political or ideological fad or bent. Anyone with an axe to grind, a chip on his or her shoulder, or just a run-of-the-mill "I know better than thou" complex has but a single pressure point to grab hold of to bend the country to his or her will. Today you may like who is behind this push for a de facto national curriculum. But tomorrow you may not be. What happens then?
I'm for competition, diversity, innovation, and freedom. The Common Core is antithetical to all that.
I'm all for that. So my schools can hold up to the 'standard' that kids exiting 6th grade should be able to add/subtract/multiply/divide numbers, and have basic English skills - and your schools, well, if your state/city/town doesn't think that's important then so be it, your kids can graduate HS thinking "smart peepul are loosers, who kares what 12% of 100 is, heck, 12/100 is what them calcoolaters are fer, if yah really needed too y'no. I have mah freedum."
We'll see who's kids do better with the real-world job competition and diversity, and who can innovate.
>The CDC's figures for liver disease deaths do not separate cirrhosis from other causes of liver disease.
Like sugar and grains.
http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov...
Sugar: The Bitter Truth
The comparison to pop is a little more sensible. However, even the "sugary drinks" ban people were talking about was nothing like prohibition -- it essentially banned selling in a large cup, without banning bottomless refills. I still think it wasn't quite right, but you're the only one talking about blanket bans. Or children, for that matter.
So should we be banning 1.75L bottles of alcohol? Perhaps we should ban 16oz 'tall boy' beers, and only sell 12oz or less beers, and limit hard liquor to .75L bottles or less?
protocals. They need to adhere to the Federal Enterprise Architecture Data Reference Model.
That is obviously misnamed, Data and Reference need to be reversed, so it's the "Federal Enterprise Architecture Reference Data Model", or to shorten it the "FEAR Data Model".
"...made a habit of ordering out for pizza..."
Pay cash. Stop at Little Caesars. Done!
I pay cash all the time pretty much - the two things I don't are for rare online purchases, and filling up the car with gas (I use the CC for convenience). The worrisome thing for me might be the grocery store, using my "preferred customer" card for discounts and such, which means they can tie all my food purchases to me, so if I get frozen pizza that could be a problem. Take-out though, I drive there and pay cash, always.
So if they force disclosure of a password and the data that was "known" to be on there isn't there, do you get to sue for violation of your fifth amendment rights?
Well, the more important question is: what about things on there that they didn't know about beforehand?
In other words, say they know this guy has documentation on mortgage fraud - ok, legally if they know he has specific documentation on there maybe they can force him to unlock it. But, for the sake of argument, say this involves the Russian mob and part of what is on the hard drive would implicate him in an as-yet unsolved (or uninvestigated as "natural causes/accidental") murder? If they compel him to unlock the drive for the "financial data" and they find proof of his complicity in a murder, is that grounds to charge him with conspiracy to commit murder, a charge they wouldn't have had any knowledge or proof of before then? Or, what if they find kiddie porn on it, can they then charge him with kiddie porn trafficing? Or is that then "fruit from the poisonous tree" gained illegally and not able to be used against him?
The easy solution here, of course, is a court judgment that he cannot be charged with any new crimes based on what it revealed on the hard drive, or even simpler - finding him "guilty" based on the evidence you claim is already enough to prove he is guilty, and then offering him leniency on sentencing for those charges if he unlocks the drive to allow future investigations into others involved (or "turning him into an informant" basically).
Have you looked at sneakemail.com?
Well, arguably, sneaker mail is the most secure. Only the person I hand it to gets it.
Can't wait for our Utility Overlords to dictate no lighting when I go take a piss at 3:00 am for the good of the hivemind.
Just the opposite, 3AM is a low usage time in most places - they'll dictate that when the motion sensor goes off that you are walking into the bathroom, every light in your house goes on, and the temperature on the 'fridge goes down a few degrees to chill that late-night snack you're going to surely be getting soon.
I always wonder the same that I wonder in this case: If that actually worked, why do they tell you (or, in this case, build it for you) instead of simply using it themselves?
From what I understand, ALL the mining ASIC manufacturers are being accused of using the machines for a good while before shipping them out, which is what is causing the prevalent shipping delays.
Well, they have to do some "quality assurance" testing to ensure they work properly, right?