That's a story that Slashdot doesn't want to cover since they still want to paint this as Trump "buying" the election.
Trump didn't have to spend as much: he got free media coverage.
If you want your story to make the frontpage of/., you are welcome to submit it. There are enough Republicans here to promote it if they find it newsworthy for the/.ers. And if it doesn't make it to the front page, you don't have to turn it into a conspiracy theory, there is a much simpler explanation: sometimes/. is still "News for nerds".
When someone says: "Trump is the new Hitler", that's an opinion.
When someone says: "Trump is going to start deporting or murdering anyone who isn't a straight white male", that's an exaggeration.
When someone says: "Hillary killed her opponent", that's speculation at best, and presenting it as a fact is misleading.
As a side note, can we please stop with the random capitalization. There's an emphasis tag in html, that should be good enough. And I won't comment in the non-literal use of "literally"; being a grammar nazi won't win me any Godwin point here.;-)
Since the summary uses degree Celsius, let's go all the way to metric:
Sea levels across the globe will rise faster than at any time throughout human history if the Earth's warming continues beyond 2 degrees Celsius. The Atlantic coast of North America will be one of the worst-hit areas as melting glaciers cause the sea level to rise over the next century, a new study published yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds. However, that rise is not expected to be uniform, as gravity and the movement of the ocean will play a role in how the water is distributed, and some areas will be hit worse than others. New York and other cities along the East Coast could see seas rise by more than 1m by the end of the century if the Earth warms by 4 or 5 degrees beyond preindustrial levels. If the rate of carbon emissions continues unabated, the authors said, the globe would warm by 2 degrees and cause significant sea-level rise by 2040. It would be worse along the East Coast of North America and Norway, which are expected to experience a sea-level rise of about 30cm. The relative speed of the sea's rise means many areas won't have time to adapt, researchers found. And from there, warming would accelerate even faster. Two degrees of warming is expected to cause an average global sea-level rise of 20cm, but virtually all coastal areas will see more of a rise, [researcher and lead author of the study Svetlana Jevrejeva], found. If warming exceeds 2 degrees by 2100, as some climate scientists worry it might, about 80 percent of the global coastline could experience a rise in sea levels of 1.8m. Such a rapid rise in sea levels is unprecedented since the dawn of the Bronze Age about 5,000 years ago, according to the study. The research takes further the potential for sea-level rise posed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which argued that sea-level rise of 28cm to 97cm is possible by 2100. Many climate scientists have since claimed that estimate is too conservative.
During 2012, it lost only 200,000 bags. That sounds like a lot, but bear in mind it carried 98 million passengers during the same period.
That sounds like a lot, and it doesn't say much if we don't know how many passengers actually checked their luggage in.
Based on my travel habits, I would say that I check a luggage about 20% of the time - I travel mainly for business. If we assume that it is a typical pattern, that means that Delta lost 200,000 bags out of 20 million passengers with checked luggage, or 1%. It just doesn't sound like a lot, it actually IS a lot.
Travel advice: if you check in a luggage, pack some clean underwear in your carry-on. You will be glad to have them if your bag is missing at your destination...
Actually, a Tesla should be in the same boat as a Toyota: it is a daily driver.
Now, it you tell me you bought a Tesla for the badge and to boast to your friends that you have a Tesla in your garage or to bring it to a track on the weekend*, that maybe a viable reason for you, but I don't think that's how Tesla positions themselves. Don't they want to bring EV to the masses?
I wouldn't say the content is getting more transparent. I would on the contrary that there is more and more trolling, unsubstantiated claims, and unverified / unverifiable information, because some people / nations have no interest of having a free internet and see it as a way to control populations.
Apparently the Russians do, and report it in the Russia Times. At least, there is no need of a leftist media conspiracy to have an idea of who edits the news of RT.
That sounds like you're buying into propaganda. Defensive gun usage is extremely common, and there have been an incredible number of mass shootings that never occurred, or were ended early by people carrying concealed. I do agree that people who are open carrying or brandishing needlessly could present those issues.
Whether the Russians had anything to do with it is irrelevant until people start acknowledging the appalling corruption that the hacks revealed. That should be first and foremost in the discussion. Whether it was the Russians, Chinese, North Koreans, or Klingons doesn't really matter. That piece of information takes second priority to that fact that our elections are rigged.
The corruption in the DNC is a problem, and I hope that the registered Democrats will look at it seriously and bring reforms to their own party.
However, it doesn't make the origin of the hack irrelevant. We are now in the general elections and it should be a worrying fact to the American people, both Republicans and Democrats, that a foreign power is trying to influence our elections.
Movie theaters had their reason to exist when they offered an added value over what you could have at home. That ceased to exist. Big screen? Have it. Dolby 7.1? Have it. 3D? Glad I don't have it. What else is there?
I know that this is slashdot and that we like to focus on features, but for me the value proposition of movie theaters resides in their selection. This is probably irrelevant for you if you just want to watch the latest blockbuster but if you are interested in independent movies, having an independent theater whose owner has a vision of what makes movies interesting beyond $$ is priceless.It's like going to an independent record shop where the owner will have a selection of the new records he likes, and not proposing just the mainstream music.Some of the movies may challenge at first, but they will expend your vision of what movies can be and what kind of stories can be told.
So basically, I let the owner of the theater do the selection for me, not based on my preferences, not based on my previous viewing history, not (entirely) based on what she thinks will make him earn the more money, but based on her cinematographic sensitivity and their extensive knowledge of movies. And I pester about the selection sometimes, and sometimes I will feel I have wasted my money on a movie, but I know that those people have brought me great movies I would not have seen otherwise and ultimately it's worth it.
I am afraid that the origin of the world will be considered pornographic by any algorithm capable of identifying it. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if many people actually think it is pornographic.
Companies have no obligation to serve US citizens. They have obligations towards their shareholders, and one of these obligations is to maximize profit. If the consequence is hiring foreign workers and bringing the US population into poverty, what does it say about capitalism?
One popular interpretation was the about the increase of component density, which has resulted for a while in an increase in the processors performance.
Nowadays, the general interpretation in the semiconductor industry is that Moore's Law is about the decrease of the $/bit (and sometimes about the decrease of energy/operation), and in regards to this metric the industry is still on track and will stay so for another decade at least. The improvements for our laptops and probably also for our phones and tablets won't be as noticeable as they have been in the past, but the computer industry will continue to change our lives by being more and more ubiquitous as the price goes down, and as VR and AI become more widely available.
By the way, Moore's paper starts with:
With unit cost falling as the number of components per circuit rises, by 1975 economics may dictate squeezing as many as 65,000 components on a single silicon chip
Last month the Russians hacked the DNC and released the anti-Trump playbook compiled by the Democratic Party. Now leaked emails with suspicion of Russian hackers... Is it a coincidence?
1. The democratic party should pay more attention to cyber-security.
If it was just about the price of gasoline, we would expect countries like France, where gasoline costs as much as $5/gallon to have a high adoption rate of electric vehicles.Yet, they represented only 1% of the new vehicles sold in 2015.
The Cultural Marxist Subversion of the Free World has resulted in weaponized zombies who prefer Big State authoritarianism and Central Planning over voluntary exchange for mutual benefit (the 'Free Market' - "capitalism" is the World the Marxists use for the Free Market). The nice thing is reality can only be defied for a short time, and those zombies will reap what they sew. And for all the sane people out there, buckle up, it's going to get rough as the Collectivist-Islamist Axis spins up to full speed.
I love this Cold War rhetoric, where no arguments are made. All it does is comforting what you already believe in. The funny thing about it is that it can usually be reversed. Let's see if it works:
The Cultural Capitalist Subversion of the Free World has resulted in weaponized zombies who prefer Corporation authoritarianism and Market Diktat over wealth redistribution for mutual benefit (the 'Regulated Market' - "Marxism" is the World the Capitalists use for the Regulated Market). The nice thing is reality can only be defied for a short time, and those zombies will reap what they sew. And for all the sane people out there, buckle up, it's going to get rough as the Military-Imperialist Axis spins up to full speed.
Note that I define myself as a capitalist, I am just pointing out that your post is just empty propaganda.
If you want to protect people from themselves, you need some sort of barrier or arm that physically blocks forward movement. Nothing else will register to someone who will miss a train barrelling towards them.
Trams (or what is called streetcar in the US, according to wikipedia) share the road with cars (but have the right of way). Barriers are not a practical solution.
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If we accept that FaceBook is a social media site, then we also have to accept that it can influence the way people think.
You can be a neurosurgeon and not have your beliefs come in the way of you decisions. It's much more difficult when you have to decide on policies.
Incidentally, Trump's expenditures per vote were about half of Hillary's. http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/09...
That's a story that Slashdot doesn't want to cover since they still want to paint this as Trump "buying" the election.
Trump didn't have to spend as much: he got free media coverage.
If you want your story to make the frontpage of /., you are welcome to submit it. There are enough Republicans here to promote it if they find it newsworthy for the /.ers. And if it doesn't make it to the front page, you don't have to turn it into a conspiracy theory, there is a much simpler explanation: sometimes /. is still "News for nerds".
Not all discourses are equal:
When someone says: "Trump is the new Hitler", that's an opinion.
When someone says: "Trump is going to start deporting or murdering anyone who isn't a straight white male", that's an exaggeration.
When someone says: "Hillary killed her opponent", that's speculation at best, and presenting it as a fact is misleading.
As a side note, can we please stop with the random capitalization. There's an emphasis tag in html, that should be good enough. And I won't comment in the non-literal use of "literally"; being a grammar nazi won't win me any Godwin point here. ;-)
Sea levels across the globe will rise faster than at any time throughout human history if the Earth's warming continues beyond 2 degrees Celsius. The Atlantic coast of North America will be one of the worst-hit areas as melting glaciers cause the sea level to rise over the next century, a new study published yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds. However, that rise is not expected to be uniform, as gravity and the movement of the ocean will play a role in how the water is distributed, and some areas will be hit worse than others. New York and other cities along the East Coast could see seas rise by more than 1m by the end of the century if the Earth warms by 4 or 5 degrees beyond preindustrial levels. If the rate of carbon emissions continues unabated, the authors said, the globe would warm by 2 degrees and cause significant sea-level rise by 2040. It would be worse along the East Coast of North America and Norway, which are expected to experience a sea-level rise of about 30cm. The relative speed of the sea's rise means many areas won't have time to adapt, researchers found. And from there, warming would accelerate even faster. Two degrees of warming is expected to cause an average global sea-level rise of 20cm, but virtually all coastal areas will see more of a rise, [researcher and lead author of the study Svetlana Jevrejeva], found. If warming exceeds 2 degrees by 2100, as some climate scientists worry it might, about 80 percent of the global coastline could experience a rise in sea levels of 1.8m. Such a rapid rise in sea levels is unprecedented since the dawn of the Bronze Age about 5,000 years ago, according to the study. The research takes further the potential for sea-level rise posed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which argued that sea-level rise of 28cm to 97cm is possible by 2100. Many climate scientists have since claimed that estimate is too conservative.
Voila!
During 2012, it lost only 200,000 bags. That sounds like a lot, but bear in mind it carried 98 million passengers during the same period.
That sounds like a lot, and it doesn't say much if we don't know how many passengers actually checked their luggage in.
Based on my travel habits, I would say that I check a luggage about 20% of the time - I travel mainly for business. If we assume that it is a typical pattern, that means that Delta lost 200,000 bags out of 20 million passengers with checked luggage, or 1%. It just doesn't sound like a lot, it actually IS a lot.
Travel advice: if you check in a luggage, pack some clean underwear in your carry-on. You will be glad to have them if your bag is missing at your destination...
Actually, a Tesla should be in the same boat as a Toyota: it is a daily driver.
Now, it you tell me you bought a Tesla for the badge and to boast to your friends that you have a Tesla in your garage or to bring it to a track on the weekend*, that maybe a viable reason for you, but I don't think that's how Tesla positions themselves. Don't they want to bring EV to the masses?
* not the best idea, I'd rather drive the Ferrari
I wouldn't say the content is getting more transparent. I would on the contrary that there is more and more trolling, unsubstantiated claims, and unverified / unverifiable information, because some people / nations have no interest of having a free internet and see it as a way to control populations.
Damn, I used to love the internet!
Apparently the Russians do, and report it in the Russia Times. At least, there is no need of a leftist media conspiracy to have an idea of who edits the news of RT.
Even without Wikileaks, there's already balance of information: the Republicans have Fox News as an echo chamber.
That sounds like you're buying into propaganda. Defensive gun usage is extremely common, and there have been an incredible number of mass shootings that never occurred, or were ended early by people carrying concealed. I do agree that people who are open carrying or brandishing needlessly could present those issues.
According to politico, defensive gun usage is not that common, with an estimated 3,200 occurences a year in the US, to compare with the 33,636 deaths due to "Injury by firearms" for 2013.
I would also question how you know there has been an "incredible number of mass shootings that never occurred", since they never occurred...
Whether the Russians had anything to do with it is irrelevant until people start acknowledging the appalling corruption that the hacks revealed. That should be first and foremost in the discussion. Whether it was the Russians, Chinese, North Koreans, or Klingons doesn't really matter. That piece of information takes second priority to that fact that our elections are rigged.
The corruption in the DNC is a problem, and I hope that the registered Democrats will look at it seriously and bring reforms to their own party.
However, it doesn't make the origin of the hack irrelevant. We are now in the general elections and it should be a worrying fact to the American people, both Republicans and Democrats, that a foreign power is trying to influence our elections.
Good God, why is this so hard to understand?
We get it, and God has nothing to do with it.
Movie theaters had their reason to exist when they offered an added value over what you could have at home. That ceased to exist. Big screen? Have it. Dolby 7.1? Have it. 3D? Glad I don't have it. What else is there?
I know that this is slashdot and that we like to focus on features, but for me the value proposition of movie theaters resides in their selection. This is probably irrelevant for you if you just want to watch the latest blockbuster but if you are interested in independent movies, having an independent theater whose owner has a vision of what makes movies interesting beyond $$ is priceless.It's like going to an independent record shop where the owner will have a selection of the new records he likes, and not proposing just the mainstream music.Some of the movies may challenge at first, but they will expend your vision of what movies can be and what kind of stories can be told.
So basically, I let the owner of the theater do the selection for me, not based on my preferences, not based on my previous viewing history, not (entirely) based on what she thinks will make him earn the more money, but based on her cinematographic sensitivity and their extensive knowledge of movies. And I pester about the selection sometimes, and sometimes I will feel I have wasted my money on a movie, but I know that those people have brought me great movies I would not have seen otherwise and ultimately it's worth it.
I am afraid that the origin of the world will be considered pornographic by any algorithm capable of identifying it. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if many people actually think it is pornographic.
Companies have no obligation to serve US citizens. They have obligations towards their shareholders, and one of these obligations is to maximize profit. If the consequence is hiring foreign workers and bringing the US population into poverty, what does it say about capitalism?
Because it has never been actually formulated.
One popular interpretation was the about the increase of component density, which has resulted for a while in an increase in the processors performance.
Nowadays, the general interpretation in the semiconductor industry is that Moore's Law is about the decrease of the $/bit (and sometimes about the decrease of energy/operation), and in regards to this metric the industry is still on track and will stay so for another decade at least. The improvements for our laptops and probably also for our phones and tablets won't be as noticeable as they have been in the past, but the computer industry will continue to change our lives by being more and more ubiquitous as the price goes down, and as VR and AI become more widely available.
By the way, Moore's paper starts with:
With unit cost falling as the number of components per circuit rises, by 1975 economics may dictate squeezing as many as 65,000 components on a single silicon chip
. It has always been about economics.
Last month the Russians hacked the DNC and released the anti-Trump playbook compiled by the Democratic Party. Now leaked emails with suspicion of Russian hackers... Is it a coincidence?
1. The democratic party should pay more attention to cyber-security.
2. Putin wants Clinton to fail?
A negative feedback control works fine as long as you don't mess it up with an additional input...
Foxconn cuts 60000 jobs, replaces them with robots
That means that robots can be cheaper than a $320/month wage. It's not a minimum wage issue.
To add to the confusion, re-writable blu-ray disks actually use Phase Change materials.
PCM won't kill flash (3D NAND has some cost benefits), it will displace DRAM in some applications.
And I would not count HD out as well, there has been some impressive advances published lately by SanDisk and the like.
Computerworld published recently a nice article on the Memory landscape
PCM is not limited to re-writable Blu-Ray, it is actually used in memory chips.
Micron used to manufacture PCM memory chips and dropped them in 2014. There are also some debate regarding whether IMFT's 3D XPoint is also PCM or not.
The real innovation in IBM's work is turning PCM into a TLC, and that is really impressive.
If it was just about the price of gasoline, we would expect countries like France, where gasoline costs as much as $5/gallon to have a high adoption rate of electric vehicles.Yet, they represented only 1% of the new vehicles sold in 2015.
The country with the highest EV adoption rate is Norway, which had a very high government incentive program which costed the state around US$13,000 per EV on the road, just for 2015.
Even if there was a political will, there are not many countries rich enough to afford those kind of incentives.
The Cultural Marxist Subversion of the Free World has resulted in weaponized zombies who prefer Big State authoritarianism and Central Planning over voluntary exchange for mutual benefit (the 'Free Market' - "capitalism" is the World the Marxists use for the Free Market). The nice thing is reality can only be defied for a short time, and those zombies will reap what they sew. And for all the sane people out there, buckle up, it's going to get rough as the Collectivist-Islamist Axis spins up to full speed.
I love this Cold War rhetoric, where no arguments are made. All it does is comforting what you already believe in. The funny thing about it is that it can usually be reversed. Let's see if it works:
The Cultural Capitalist Subversion of the Free World has resulted in weaponized zombies who prefer Corporation authoritarianism and Market Diktat over wealth redistribution for mutual benefit (the 'Regulated Market' - "Marxism" is the World the Capitalists use for the Regulated Market). The nice thing is reality can only be defied for a short time, and those zombies will reap what they sew. And for all the sane people out there, buckle up, it's going to get rough as the Military-Imperialist Axis spins up to full speed.
Note that I define myself as a capitalist, I am just pointing out that your post is just empty propaganda.
If you want to protect people from themselves, you need some sort of barrier or arm that physically blocks forward movement. Nothing else will register to someone who will miss a train barrelling towards them.
Trams (or what is called streetcar in the US, according to wikipedia) share the road with cars (but have the right of way). Barriers are not a practical solution.