You should not be feeding cows corn. It is done a lot because it is very cheap. But corn is not natural to cows instead they were evolved to eat grass. When you stuff them in feed lots and force them to eat corn their digestive tracts turn septic and they start breeding pathogens. Crammed together the way they are they pass that around. That is why cows are given antibiotics.
The problem isn't meat. The problem is factory farmed cheap meat.
By reasonably consideration, you're killing a ton of insects to grow that 4.67 pounds of corn relative to cucumbers.
This makes no sense. People grow corn for all sorts of reasons other than as cattle feed. Also, pastured cattle co-exist just fine with insects pretty much as the their genetic ancestors and cousins did. So it makes no sense to associate good beef-raising practices with problems to raising corn.
* It is likely your last cucumber sandwich killed as many animals as your last hamburger.
* Humans were evolved to eat meat. To be fully vegetarian you would need a much longer digestive tract in which you could ferment plant matter like a gorilla or cow.
* Zinc, B12, and about a dozen other micro-nutrients that are NOT optional are hard to get for a vegetarian and impossible for a vegan. Popping a bunch of dietary supplements is a poor substitute and no way to live.
* There has never been a sustained human population that was fully vegetarian.
* The way we treat food animals is cruel, horrific and unconscionable. This is one area where the militant vegans and I see eye to eye. It has to stop.
* Cattle and other food animals can be easily raised on land that is not farmable. Too rocky too steep or soil where only grasses grow. The animal secretions help the ecosystem build more fertile topsoil. Other species live with cow pastures whereas plant agriculture tends toward monoculture where everything but the desired crop is poisoned and killed.
That's off the top of my head. I have a couple dozen more points but I am done for tonight.
I know it is cool here to hate on Comcast but my cable modem service supports it so easily now that I don't see any barrier's to adoption.
I used to use one of my Apple Time Capsules (so shoot me) for my router but when I needed better VPN service I got a $35 Mikrotik and made that the gateway router and the Time Capsules are now bridge-mode Wifi access points behind that.
Fast forward a couple of years and I hear about Comcast has IPv6. I found out that my Mikrotik needed an upgrade for IPv6 support but that was surprisingly painless. Once you have that and turn it on the router gets your IPv6 address assignment from the upstream DHCPv6 server Comcast runs. That gives you a 64-bit "address pool" (which is what Mikrotik calls it) and without doing anything else all your household devices get an IPv6 address according their own capabilities.
Comcast did it right, but you still need the right router software on your end. The Time Capsules didn't cut it but the Mikrotik router did. I can't speak for other products because the router worked and there was no need to try anything else.
Windows no problem. MacOS no problem. Smart phones, TV, cams and all the other junk no problem.
The only reason you need IPv4 at all is because there are still a LOT of servers and services out there that can't be reached by IPv6. But I have had no issue with Safari, Chrome, or Firefox or any other networking application.
The payoff for me is that I run a fair number of VMs out in the cloud. My co-location host is reasonably OK with giving me IPv4 addresses when I need them but now I don't even bother assigning an IPv4 address to a system unless it is for public access. IPv6 straight from my system at home to the VM out there.
Fringe benefit: The public IPv6 addresses, at least those that don't have well-known AAAA DNS records, don't get constantly assailed by bots with dictionary attacks.
Gripe: XenCenter doesn't support IPv6 for management. And it is a mess to try and install a mitigating tool like fail2ban in the XenServer hypervisor. What a pain.
If you are in to Overwatch (I am not) your time is better spent looking at the related artwork floating around of the out-of-this-world callipygian girl characters in skintight costumes. Or sometimes no costumes except the face paint.
Well if that was what they were after it was pretty stupid to allow the cameras go offline. For their goldmine to be viable they would tap the video and do as much as they could to make sure they weren't detected. Instead, they crashed the devices forcing the owners to find out what was wrong.
It sounds like a particular model camera the city was using had an exploit. But...
Why did they bother? I can't think of what they had to gain unless they were setting up a blanket for some other activity that would be caught by those cameras. But that didn't happen but they are going to pay a pretty heavy price for it.
So was it just for the lulz? (I know that is a dated term but I can't think of a better word right now.)
Prohibition against VPNs is by no means restricted to China. In most of the Middle East you can be thrown in jail for using a VPN.
They don't want people to bypass their firewall blocks for services like Skype that would undermine revenues for their Telco carriers. Which, usually, is owned by a close relative of the country's leader.
I fully get why he is doing this. I just think that someone somewhere has a worthwhile payload that they have but they otherwise couldn't afford to pay to boost.
Worst case is a cache of supplies to park in Martian orbit for the next time Matt Damon is stuck there and the Home Depot he used last time is closed.
Back in the early '00 decade were were seriously advised by investment bankers to add a "dot com" to our name before doing our public offering. We were actually a networking products company enjoying a ride up on the dot com boom but the bankers thought in order for the stock to "take off" it had to be associated with this new thing called the web. (this was in the year 200x!)
At the end of the day we didn't do it but they were serious.
Does it fix the problem that it has become unacceptably common for programs written in the language...
Isn't this a complaint about the runtime environment and not the language itself? What about this would change if, for example, the browser language was Python or Java?
TypeScript seems to fix nearly everything I had a problem with regarding Javascript. And if you are using Angular and follow 90%+ of the instructional material out there you are using TypeScript. I had spent years avoiding Javascript and learned what I needed but without much enthusiasm.
The funny thing is that I don't really need strong type checking for designing my app. My IDE (WebStorm) needs strong type checking in order to be more helpful to me. Without TypeScript it is forced to make a lot of hellacious guesses (mostly wrong) about code completion. With the current version it is almost as solid as if I were programming Java.
The cherry on top is that I can still be as careless and sloppy as I want the way Javascript alone allows. Occasionally that is actually helpful. So all win for me.
Do they have to give it back if (unlikely, I know) he's found not guilty?
Nominally they do. But I have read a lot of cases where it has proved very hard to get your property back after a civil asset forfeiture action.
This happens a lot in smaller actions, not where millions of dollars are at stake. Somebody gets their door kicked in on suspicion of something or other, they often gather up all computers and files. Cars and other vehicles. It can take months if not years to get it back after the prosecution has been dropped and often it isn't in good shape when returned.
Civil asset forfeiture is one of those institutions that are incredibly ripe for abuse and are arguably totally unconstitutional to begin with. But nobody wants to be activist to fix it because they don't think it will ever apply to them. And for the most part that is true so law enforcement gets to use it as the wish.
I can't say why this pops into my head while reading this article, but I am reminded of how the history of the federal bureaucracy includes times where they managed brothels in Nevada as an ongoing business after seizing them as part of tax enforcement action.
I guess it is because for some reason it doesn't seem that the Feds have any business trading Bitcoins either.
I sense presence of the libertarian shibboleth that the free market will fix everything. That is what is dangerous and stupid.
Also the reliance on shaky facts, common among libertarians. I don't want to get into a long discussion but let's just pick out one since it was mentioned:
Cap malpractice payouts through tort reform.
This has always been an appeal to emotion rather than reliance on actual facts and figures. My dad was a personal injury lawyer for 60 years and had gotten record-setting multimilion dollar malpractice settlements. Outrageous? Not the the person who has to care for a cripple for life because the hospital screwed up. Do you know what percentage of malpractice suits result in a payout for the plantiff? About 2%.
Yet the "tort reform" banner always gets hoisted in these discussions. When they do, I know that the one doing the hoisting doesn't really know what they are talking about. Instead they are relying on right-wing media propaganda.
If Trump is found to be illegally elected then Pence is too.
There is going to be no finding of Trump being elected illegally. The moment that Hillary conceded the election, as did Al Gore before her, the result was final and legal no matter how "crooked" or "influenced" it was.
The only reason that the U.S.A. went to the moon is because the reactionary/conservative votes in Congress and their constituency tolerated it. The reason: they were afraid that the USSR would get there first and establish military dominance from space.
Even so, if JFK had not been assassinated I have read that many historians agree that most of the NASA programs and particularly Apollo would have been de-funded. It was only through sentimental appeal to preserving the JFK legacy that they managed to preserve the 1-2% of the federal budget used for that purpose.
Today, the political dynamic is far different. As long as the right-wing has control of government it will never fund NASA space exploration again. The most you can get is big sub-contracts for private enterprise like SpaceX. But you will have to notice that Elon Musk is no longer hanging out with Trump. What do you think that is?
To the GOP, government scientists are the enemy, as are scientists employed by anyone that they do not have direct control over.
The issue is not motivation or imagination. It is the very peculiar politics of the U.S for the past several decades.
Not implementing and operating a data backup system properly.
I have been bit by this myself and I thought I was doing a good job at it. (I'm not an IT manager -- I'm a software engineer who often gets shoved the IT manager's job for one reason or another.)
Almost every other failure can be mitigated but not this one.
Is there any lay text around that explains how the experiment works? The article doesn't have and talks more about space pollution than relativity & gravity.
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It takes somewhere around 4.67 pounds of corn for a pound of beef
You should not be feeding cows corn. It is done a lot because it is very cheap. But corn is not natural to cows instead they were evolved to eat grass. When you stuff them in feed lots and force them to eat corn their digestive tracts turn septic and they start breeding pathogens. Crammed together the way they are they pass that around. That is why cows are given antibiotics.
The problem isn't meat. The problem is factory farmed cheap meat.
By reasonably consideration, you're killing a ton of insects to grow that 4.67 pounds of corn relative to cucumbers.
This makes no sense. People grow corn for all sorts of reasons other than as cattle feed. Also, pastured cattle co-exist just fine with insects pretty much as the their genetic ancestors and cousins did. So it makes no sense to associate good beef-raising practices with problems to raising corn.
* It is likely your last cucumber sandwich killed as many animals as your last hamburger.
* Humans were evolved to eat meat. To be fully vegetarian you would need a much longer digestive tract in which you could ferment plant matter like a gorilla or cow.
* Zinc, B12, and about a dozen other micro-nutrients that are NOT optional are hard to get for a vegetarian and impossible for a vegan. Popping a bunch of dietary supplements is a poor substitute and no way to live.
* There has never been a sustained human population that was fully vegetarian.
* The way we treat food animals is cruel, horrific and unconscionable. This is one area where the militant vegans and I see eye to eye. It has to stop.
* Cattle and other food animals can be easily raised on land that is not farmable. Too rocky too steep or soil where only grasses grow. The animal secretions help the ecosystem build more fertile topsoil. Other species live with cow pastures whereas plant agriculture tends toward monoculture where everything but the desired crop is poisoned and killed.
That's off the top of my head. I have a couple dozen more points but I am done for tonight.
I know it is cool here to hate on Comcast but my cable modem service supports it so easily now that I don't see any barrier's to adoption.
I used to use one of my Apple Time Capsules (so shoot me) for my router but when I needed better VPN service I got a $35 Mikrotik and made that the gateway router and the Time Capsules are now bridge-mode Wifi access points behind that.
Fast forward a couple of years and I hear about Comcast has IPv6. I found out that my Mikrotik needed an upgrade for IPv6 support but that was surprisingly painless. Once you have that and turn it on the router gets your IPv6 address assignment from the upstream DHCPv6 server Comcast runs. That gives you a 64-bit "address pool" (which is what Mikrotik calls it) and without doing anything else all your household devices get an IPv6 address according their own capabilities.
Comcast did it right, but you still need the right router software on your end. The Time Capsules didn't cut it but the Mikrotik router did. I can't speak for other products because the router worked and there was no need to try anything else.
Windows no problem. MacOS no problem. Smart phones, TV, cams and all the other junk no problem.
The only reason you need IPv4 at all is because there are still a LOT of servers and services out there that can't be reached by IPv6. But I have had no issue with Safari, Chrome, or Firefox or any other networking application.
The payoff for me is that I run a fair number of VMs out in the cloud. My co-location host is reasonably OK with giving me IPv4 addresses when I need them but now I don't even bother assigning an IPv4 address to a system unless it is for public access. IPv6 straight from my system at home to the VM out there.
Fringe benefit: The public IPv6 addresses, at least those that don't have well-known AAAA DNS records, don't get constantly assailed by bots with dictionary attacks.
Gripe: XenCenter doesn't support IPv6 for management. And it is a mess to try and install a mitigating tool like fail2ban in the XenServer hypervisor. What a pain.
That's my take anyway.
If you are in to Overwatch (I am not) your time is better spent looking at the related artwork floating around of the out-of-this-world callipygian girl characters in skintight costumes. Or sometimes no costumes except the face paint.
But maybe that's just me.
No, they had a potential goldmine.
Well if that was what they were after it was pretty stupid to allow the cameras go offline. For their goldmine to be viable they would tap the video and do as much as they could to make sure they weren't detected. Instead, they crashed the devices forcing the owners to find out what was wrong.
Amazing what you can accomplish with just the right chemical reactions. And lots of it.
One day this will look like such a crude and primitive method of ascending out of our gravity well.
We will never see that cash again, Elon!
Somebody here seems to think that money has been spent anywhere other than on Earth.
It sounds like a particular model camera the city was using had an exploit. But...
Why did they bother? I can't think of what they had to gain unless they were setting up a blanket for some other activity that would be caught by those cameras. But that didn't happen but they are going to pay a pretty heavy price for it.
So was it just for the lulz? (I know that is a dated term but I can't think of a better word right now.)
Prohibition against VPNs is by no means restricted to China. In most of the Middle East you can be thrown in jail for using a VPN.
They don't want people to bypass their firewall blocks for services like Skype that would undermine revenues for their Telco carriers. Which, usually, is owned by a close relative of the country's leader.
I fully get why he is doing this. I just think that someone somewhere has a worthwhile payload that they have but they otherwise couldn't afford to pay to boost.
Worst case is a cache of supplies to park in Martian orbit for the next time Matt Damon is stuck there and the Home Depot he used last time is closed.
Back in the early '00 decade were were seriously advised by investment bankers to add a "dot com" to our name before doing our public offering. We were actually a networking products company enjoying a ride up on the dot com boom but the bankers thought in order for the stock to "take off" it had to be associated with this new thing called the web. (this was in the year 200x!)
At the end of the day we didn't do it but they were serious.
Does it fix the problem that it has become unacceptably common for programs written in the language ...
Isn't this a complaint about the runtime environment and not the language itself? What about this would change if, for example, the browser language was Python or Java?
Let's play Who's The Greater Fool?
TypeScript seems to fix nearly everything I had a problem with regarding Javascript. And if you are using Angular and follow 90%+ of the instructional material out there you are using TypeScript. I had spent years avoiding Javascript and learned what I needed but without much enthusiasm.
The funny thing is that I don't really need strong type checking for designing my app. My IDE (WebStorm) needs strong type checking in order to be more helpful to me. Without TypeScript it is forced to make a lot of hellacious guesses (mostly wrong) about code completion. With the current version it is almost as solid as if I were programming Java.
The cherry on top is that I can still be as careless and sloppy as I want the way Javascript alone allows. Occasionally that is actually helpful. So all win for me.
Do they have to give it back if (unlikely, I know) he's found not guilty?
Nominally they do. But I have read a lot of cases where it has proved very hard to get your property back after a civil asset forfeiture action.
This happens a lot in smaller actions, not where millions of dollars are at stake. Somebody gets their door kicked in on suspicion of something or other, they often gather up all computers and files. Cars and other vehicles. It can take months if not years to get it back after the prosecution has been dropped and often it isn't in good shape when returned.
Civil asset forfeiture is one of those institutions that are incredibly ripe for abuse and are arguably totally unconstitutional to begin with. But nobody wants to be activist to fix it because they don't think it will ever apply to them. And for the most part that is true so law enforcement gets to use it as the wish.
I can't say why this pops into my head while reading this article, but I am reminded of how the history of the federal bureaucracy includes times where they managed brothels in Nevada as an ongoing business after seizing them as part of tax enforcement action.
I guess it is because for some reason it doesn't seem that the Feds have any business trading Bitcoins either.
The reason: they were afraid that the USSR would get there first and establish military dominance from space.
Serious people never thought that, even if it was an easy headline.
Which is why of course the Outer Space Treaty exists. Because nobody serious thought anyone would try to put weapons in orbit.
In Cold War technology, space = rockets, and rockets = ICBMs...
You are on firmer ground there, but I would disagree that the Apollo mission was no more than an international PR stunt.
Why exactly is dangerous and stupid?
I sense presence of the libertarian shibboleth that the free market will fix everything. That is what is dangerous and stupid.
Also the reliance on shaky facts, common among libertarians. I don't want to get into a long discussion but let's just pick out one since it was mentioned:
Cap malpractice payouts through tort reform.
This has always been an appeal to emotion rather than reliance on actual facts and figures. My dad was a personal injury lawyer for 60 years and had gotten record-setting multimilion dollar malpractice settlements. Outrageous? Not the the person who has to care for a cripple for life because the hospital screwed up. Do you know what percentage of malpractice suits result in a payout for the plantiff? About 2%.
Yet the "tort reform" banner always gets hoisted in these discussions. When they do, I know that the one doing the hoisting doesn't really know what they are talking about. Instead they are relying on right-wing media propaganda.
If Trump is found to be illegally elected then Pence is too.
There is going to be no finding of Trump being elected illegally. The moment that Hillary conceded the election, as did Al Gore before her, the result was final and legal no matter how "crooked" or "influenced" it was.
The only reason that the U.S.A. went to the moon is because the reactionary/conservative votes in Congress and their constituency tolerated it. The reason: they were afraid that the USSR would get there first and establish military dominance from space.
Even so, if JFK had not been assassinated I have read that many historians agree that most of the NASA programs and particularly Apollo would have been de-funded. It was only through sentimental appeal to preserving the JFK legacy that they managed to preserve the 1-2% of the federal budget used for that purpose.
Today, the political dynamic is far different. As long as the right-wing has control of government it will never fund NASA space exploration again. The most you can get is big sub-contracts for private enterprise like SpaceX. But you will have to notice that Elon Musk is no longer hanging out with Trump. What do you think that is?
To the GOP, government scientists are the enemy, as are scientists employed by anyone that they do not have direct control over.
The issue is not motivation or imagination. It is the very peculiar politics of the U.S for the past several decades.
Still no touch screen.
And yes I would use it if it were there. For scroll/zoom if nothing else.
Not implementing and operating a data backup system properly.
I have been bit by this myself and I thought I was doing a good job at it. (I'm not an IT manager -- I'm a software engineer who often gets shoved the IT manager's job for one reason or another.)
Almost every other failure can be mitigated but not this one.
.. Pai will ignore it.
It does seem more and more that the fix is in. Follow the money: "legal tender" trumps "public interest" every time.
Is there any lay text around that explains how the experiment works? The article doesn't have and talks more about space pollution than relativity & gravity.
The article is claiming that the FCC position is the complete opposite from what the FCC says it is in the document.
Thanks for the detail. (paragraph 47) It did help me.