Well, the Supreme Court also said that the Supreme Court gets to decide the Constitutionality of laws, even though that power isn't assigned to them in the Constitution.
I agree with them that someone should be in charge of judicial review and they are probably the best equipped to handle it, but at the same time they seem to be taking on a lot of authority that wasn't delegated to them and using that to give undelegated powers to other branches.
What actually is the "law of the land" is on pretty shaky ground, constitutionally.
He didn't say it was bad, only weird. And it is pretty weird.
Anyway, I though Buddha specifically taught us how to become a "living Buddha". That's pretty much entirely what his teachings were about and nowhere in them did he mention encasing yourself in a statue of him like some sort of creepy stalker.
One of the ways that religions become weird is when they blow off the teachings of the great master/prophet/god/whatever and concentrate more on worshiping them. Given time, it seems like that's where all religions end up.
His "universal developer rule" has nothing do with agriculture. He's talking about developers putting up houses on flood plains.
In fact, that land was probably bought from the farmers leaving less food grown in that fertile plain. So yeah, turning farmland that can tolerate the occasional flood and produces cheap food into tracts of cheap housing that gets developers rich and costs the taxpayers after a predictable flood totally "works out nicely for everyone".
I assume he's talking about people who are taking up more than a fair share of the space to walk (ie negotiating equitable space). Situations like people walking down the center of a busy sidewalk so that everybody else has to step aside or bump into them or people walking two or three abreast and taking up the whole sidewalk. They're either oblivious or abusing people's desire to avoid confrontation.
His approach is similar to what I've noticed, too. If people are occupying so much of the sidewalk that you can't walk normally (to one side of the sidewalk) without walking into them, it's almost your social duty to not yield to them. Be prepared to walk right into them. It's not acceptable for them to be so oblivious or such an asshole in public and expect others to go out of their way to accommodate them.
It's the other people in this thread who are talking about backing up their "right" to be an asshole by shooting/stabbing people who don't yield to them that are claiming that might makes right.
If I come out and directly say that I like electric vehicles and wish that we could stop burning gasoline in cars, could I get some replies to my comments that are actually replying to my comment and not refuting weird arguments that I'm not actually making? I see now why people put those disclaimers at the end of their posts to try and head off these kinds of replies.
You do see that nowhere, in any of my posts in this thread, was I comparing the efficiency of gas engines to electric drive systems, right? I was merely referencing the technical implementation of heating systems in gas burning cars and being a pedant about the use of the terms efficiency vs inefficiency.
Ugh. The posts here aren't even about nerdish oneupsmanship and pedantry anymore. Slashdot is increasingly driven by boring ideological quibbles and a dearth of reading comprehension.
A Juris Doctor, just like a Doctor of Medicine, is not a PhD level degree. They're professional degrees that most often don't even require a bachelor's degree to obtain. The PhD equivalent in the field of law is the Doctor of Judicial Science, which depends on a Master of Laws degree and a JD.
A bit tangent to your point, but a useful thing to know when thinking about the practice of law.
That's another way of stating it, I suppose. All systems produce waste heat, though. Even looking at the EV as a closed system, you don't see 100% efficiency. Any time you can use waste heat to do meaningful work, you're increasing efficiency or reducing inefficiency.
Politics aside, there's no difference between increasing efficiency and decreasing inefficiency. Both statements mean the same thing. Increasing the efficiency in any system is good, even internal combustion engines and even in light of electric vehicles being the better choice. EVs are capable of being overall more efficient, but this little subthread was discussing how ICE heaters work, which is in fact a clever use of waste heat.
Call them up and tell them that. It may take little while or a few calls to get anywhere, but I've found that they actually respond to complaints about dead zones in their metro service areas.
If it's just a little gap in a place with otherwise good signal, they'll make back the cost of installing a little repeater on a street light in a few months of gaining a new customer. Of course, if there's no signal for miles, they're not going to put up a new tower for you.
Wifi calling actually works pretty well, too, but only on their branded phones (seriously, wtf?).
If this is something that happens often, look into applying a user CSS like someone else mentioned or adjusting the font options in your browser. Most browsers will let you override the website's fonts with your own (though the OS default browsers like IE and Safari tend to put those options in the system settings).
The one practical use I've found for voicemail is screening unfamiliar numbers. If I don't recognize the number and they don't leave a message, it was almost certainly not a call that was important or intended for me.
Just in case it wasn't clear from the post above, you lose LTE/3G but still retain EDGE access. Email, light web browsing, maps, and the like still work fine on EDGE, just more slowly. I've rarely gone over, but only dropping my speed when I do is just about the best reaction to an overage that I've seen.
For the typical Windows/Mac/Ubuntu user who would install malware, the only time they ever type an OS-related password on their system is to perform superuser tasks. Most people don't use passwords on their personal computers and have automatic login set up. The fact that the sudo password is the same as their account password is irrelevant because they only ever use it to perform superuser tasks anyway.
I've thought about that approach a bit. Diversifying limits the scope of any infection, but it also increases the chance of any individual infection. With a network of heterogenous systems, you need to also ensure that the network is set up to keep the systems isolated (which is even more important in a homogeneous environment anyway, so no big deal).
The best approach would be to use whatever OS is best capable of handling a specific task. But if you're not very familiar with each of the OSs deployed on your network, you're better off avoiding it and using something that you can keep updated and hardened.
No, filling with gas isn't something you do every morning, dumbass, therefore you can find that you run out (or worrying about running out) because you haven't seen or taken an opportunity to fill up.
Pliugging in every day IS done.
So if she forgets to attend to fueling her vehicle one in five times, she'll not make it to work once a week with an EV instead of once a month with a gas vehicle?
I like EVs, but your situation seems to more about your forgetful wife than different vehicle technologies. Most people manage to keep their vehicles fueled.
Yeah, that really is an apples to oranges comparison. His wife's issue doesn't center on the gas station vs the charger plugging. If she neglects filling up the tank when it gets low, she'll likely also neglect plugging in the car at night. Both types of vehicle are capable of running out of fuel and yet most people manage to not run out of fuel.
In fact, the reinforcement of habit aside, a spacey or forgetful person is more likely to get in trouble with a vehicle that needs to be attended to every day than one that needs to be attended to once a week or month.
Heating in gas cars is accomplished by diverting some of the engine coolant to a small radiator in the cabin ventilation system. In the summer, you simply don't run hot coolant through the cabin and run it all through the radiator outside of the cabin.
As Hog said, you waste it all in the summer. It's an added efficiency to the whole system in the winter.
Go read the comments on YouTube for a day and tell me that you honestly think we should pay attention to everyone who wants to share their opinion. The nice thing about Hawking's position is that if he spouts too much half-baked bullshit, people will stop listening to him. Random Slashdot guy has no such limitation (or doesn't care about it).
We should certainly keep an open mind and I'm completely disgusted by unwarranted deference to the opinions of celebrities, but go and read the illiterate ramblings that the GP responded to. What is his argument against Hawking's claims? What valuable insight does his argument present?
There's only so much time in our lives; wasting it listening to morons would be tragic.
I have no interest in this at all, either, but your case highlights another reason why the computing is offloaded to remote servers. Assuming that you didn't like feature because it didn't work well (and not because it is stupid and redundant), the manufacturer can constantly improve the feature's recognition and lexicon if it isn't baked into the device itself.
Of course, the valid reasons would carry more weight if the companies didn't seem to get so excited about the creepy reasons.
That's also the reason that IoT devices only work with the cooperation of the mothership. For example, there's only so much processing you need to make a very advanced, responsive, and predictive thermostat. It can all be handled with ample headroom by modern low power devices, even if certain data needs to be fetched from the internet (like predicted weather). Yet still the processing is offloaded.
As you said, the justification in many cases is that local hardware cannot handle the task. The motivation is to get grubby hands on your data, though.
You mean Chrome, the web browser written by the world's biggest online advertising firm, makes it difficult to avoid annoying advertisements? That doesn't sound right at all.
Oh, so the world really is that black and white to you. Either the Constitution has teeth and punishes authority when it oversteps its bounds (which it clearly doesn't) or the US is a brutal dictatorship and citizens who challenge authority must be murdered to make an example (which it clearly isn't).
There clearly isn't anything else in play here. Either the Constitution works or the government is murdering you. Open and shut.
(Let alone the obvious existence of other countries that neither have a constitution nor are brutal dictatorships.)
You keep referring to "still breathing", as if state sanctioned murder of citizens for petty criticism is obligatory in the absence of the Constitution. There are plenty of countries without written constitutions where the post above wouldn't get you killed and there are plenty of reasons that have nothing to do with the Constitution to not murder people for speaking their mind.
Is the world really so black and white to you? Can we not complain about the shortcomings of our system of government until we are being dragged away and disappeared in the night?
A fair analysis, but he was directly comparing it to Chernobyl, which can be described similarly (except for the population issues and the correspondingly lower death toll). The 1975 failure was also enormously more damaging because it was a cascade failure, with one initial failure causing several downstream failures.
Dam failures in general tend to claim pretty big death tolls and extremely large property damage because of the amount of stored energy and the short time over which it is released. From the few US samples available, a recent failure caused enormously more damage than the most recent nuclear incident (and the same death toll, zero).
Hell, the same earthquake and tsunami that caused the Fukushima reactor failures caused a dam to fail, which killed 7 people.
While hydroelectric power is historically a new thing, dams have been around for ages and large pools of water held back by human devices are nothing to scoff at.
He's probably referring to the Banqiao Dam failure in 1975, which killed around 170,000 people.
High capacity hydroelectric plants involve dams, which are incredibly destructive when they fail. Even when they don't cause fatalities, dam failures often cause massive ecological damage (aside from the damage caused by damming a river in the first place).
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Well, the Supreme Court also said that the Supreme Court gets to decide the Constitutionality of laws, even though that power isn't assigned to them in the Constitution.
I agree with them that someone should be in charge of judicial review and they are probably the best equipped to handle it, but at the same time they seem to be taking on a lot of authority that wasn't delegated to them and using that to give undelegated powers to other branches.
What actually is the "law of the land" is on pretty shaky ground, constitutionally.
He didn't say it was bad, only weird. And it is pretty weird.
Anyway, I though Buddha specifically taught us how to become a "living Buddha". That's pretty much entirely what his teachings were about and nowhere in them did he mention encasing yourself in a statue of him like some sort of creepy stalker.
One of the ways that religions become weird is when they blow off the teachings of the great master/prophet/god/whatever and concentrate more on worshiping them. Given time, it seems like that's where all religions end up.
His "universal developer rule" has nothing do with agriculture. He's talking about developers putting up houses on flood plains.
In fact, that land was probably bought from the farmers leaving less food grown in that fertile plain. So yeah, turning farmland that can tolerate the occasional flood and produces cheap food into tracts of cheap housing that gets developers rich and costs the taxpayers after a predictable flood totally "works out nicely for everyone".
I assume he's talking about people who are taking up more than a fair share of the space to walk (ie negotiating equitable space). Situations like people walking down the center of a busy sidewalk so that everybody else has to step aside or bump into them or people walking two or three abreast and taking up the whole sidewalk. They're either oblivious or abusing people's desire to avoid confrontation.
His approach is similar to what I've noticed, too. If people are occupying so much of the sidewalk that you can't walk normally (to one side of the sidewalk) without walking into them, it's almost your social duty to not yield to them. Be prepared to walk right into them. It's not acceptable for them to be so oblivious or such an asshole in public and expect others to go out of their way to accommodate them.
It's the other people in this thread who are talking about backing up their "right" to be an asshole by shooting/stabbing people who don't yield to them that are claiming that might makes right.
If I come out and directly say that I like electric vehicles and wish that we could stop burning gasoline in cars, could I get some replies to my comments that are actually replying to my comment and not refuting weird arguments that I'm not actually making? I see now why people put those disclaimers at the end of their posts to try and head off these kinds of replies.
You do see that nowhere, in any of my posts in this thread, was I comparing the efficiency of gas engines to electric drive systems, right? I was merely referencing the technical implementation of heating systems in gas burning cars and being a pedant about the use of the terms efficiency vs inefficiency.
Ugh. The posts here aren't even about nerdish oneupsmanship and pedantry anymore. Slashdot is increasingly driven by boring ideological quibbles and a dearth of reading comprehension.
A Juris Doctor, just like a Doctor of Medicine, is not a PhD level degree. They're professional degrees that most often don't even require a bachelor's degree to obtain. The PhD equivalent in the field of law is the Doctor of Judicial Science, which depends on a Master of Laws degree and a JD.
A bit tangent to your point, but a useful thing to know when thinking about the practice of law.
That's another way of stating it, I suppose. All systems produce waste heat, though. Even looking at the EV as a closed system, you don't see 100% efficiency. Any time you can use waste heat to do meaningful work, you're increasing efficiency or reducing inefficiency.
Politics aside, there's no difference between increasing efficiency and decreasing inefficiency. Both statements mean the same thing. Increasing the efficiency in any system is good, even internal combustion engines and even in light of electric vehicles being the better choice. EVs are capable of being overall more efficient, but this little subthread was discussing how ICE heaters work, which is in fact a clever use of waste heat.
Call them up and tell them that. It may take little while or a few calls to get anywhere, but I've found that they actually respond to complaints about dead zones in their metro service areas.
If it's just a little gap in a place with otherwise good signal, they'll make back the cost of installing a little repeater on a street light in a few months of gaining a new customer. Of course, if there's no signal for miles, they're not going to put up a new tower for you.
Wifi calling actually works pretty well, too, but only on their branded phones (seriously, wtf?).
If this is something that happens often, look into applying a user CSS like someone else mentioned or adjusting the font options in your browser. Most browsers will let you override the website's fonts with your own (though the OS default browsers like IE and Safari tend to put those options in the system settings).
The one practical use I've found for voicemail is screening unfamiliar numbers. If I don't recognize the number and they don't leave a message, it was almost certainly not a call that was important or intended for me.
Just in case it wasn't clear from the post above, you lose LTE/3G but still retain EDGE access. Email, light web browsing, maps, and the like still work fine on EDGE, just more slowly. I've rarely gone over, but only dropping my speed when I do is just about the best reaction to an overage that I've seen.
For the typical Windows/Mac/Ubuntu user who would install malware, the only time they ever type an OS-related password on their system is to perform superuser tasks. Most people don't use passwords on their personal computers and have automatic login set up. The fact that the sudo password is the same as their account password is irrelevant because they only ever use it to perform superuser tasks anyway.
I've thought about that approach a bit. Diversifying limits the scope of any infection, but it also increases the chance of any individual infection. With a network of heterogenous systems, you need to also ensure that the network is set up to keep the systems isolated (which is even more important in a homogeneous environment anyway, so no big deal).
The best approach would be to use whatever OS is best capable of handling a specific task. But if you're not very familiar with each of the OSs deployed on your network, you're better off avoiding it and using something that you can keep updated and hardened.
No, filling with gas isn't something you do every morning, dumbass, therefore you can find that you run out (or worrying about running out) because you haven't seen or taken an opportunity to fill up.
Pliugging in every day IS done.
So if she forgets to attend to fueling her vehicle one in five times, she'll not make it to work once a week with an EV instead of once a month with a gas vehicle?
I like EVs, but your situation seems to more about your forgetful wife than different vehicle technologies. Most people manage to keep their vehicles fueled.
Yeah, that really is an apples to oranges comparison. His wife's issue doesn't center on the gas station vs the charger plugging. If she neglects filling up the tank when it gets low, she'll likely also neglect plugging in the car at night. Both types of vehicle are capable of running out of fuel and yet most people manage to not run out of fuel.
In fact, the reinforcement of habit aside, a spacey or forgetful person is more likely to get in trouble with a vehicle that needs to be attended to every day than one that needs to be attended to once a week or month.
Heating in gas cars is accomplished by diverting some of the engine coolant to a small radiator in the cabin ventilation system. In the summer, you simply don't run hot coolant through the cabin and run it all through the radiator outside of the cabin.
As Hog said, you waste it all in the summer. It's an added efficiency to the whole system in the winter.
But you can vaguely allude to data points and make sweeping conclusions? He actually presented some data points at all. Where are yours?
Go read the comments on YouTube for a day and tell me that you honestly think we should pay attention to everyone who wants to share their opinion. The nice thing about Hawking's position is that if he spouts too much half-baked bullshit, people will stop listening to him. Random Slashdot guy has no such limitation (or doesn't care about it).
We should certainly keep an open mind and I'm completely disgusted by unwarranted deference to the opinions of celebrities, but go and read the illiterate ramblings that the GP responded to. What is his argument against Hawking's claims? What valuable insight does his argument present?
There's only so much time in our lives; wasting it listening to morons would be tragic.
I have no interest in this at all, either, but your case highlights another reason why the computing is offloaded to remote servers. Assuming that you didn't like feature because it didn't work well (and not because it is stupid and redundant), the manufacturer can constantly improve the feature's recognition and lexicon if it isn't baked into the device itself.
Of course, the valid reasons would carry more weight if the companies didn't seem to get so excited about the creepy reasons.
That's also the reason that IoT devices only work with the cooperation of the mothership. For example, there's only so much processing you need to make a very advanced, responsive, and predictive thermostat. It can all be handled with ample headroom by modern low power devices, even if certain data needs to be fetched from the internet (like predicted weather). Yet still the processing is offloaded.
As you said, the justification in many cases is that local hardware cannot handle the task. The motivation is to get grubby hands on your data, though.
You mean Chrome, the web browser written by the world's biggest online advertising firm, makes it difficult to avoid annoying advertisements? That doesn't sound right at all.
Oh, so the world really is that black and white to you. Either the Constitution has teeth and punishes authority when it oversteps its bounds (which it clearly doesn't) or the US is a brutal dictatorship and citizens who challenge authority must be murdered to make an example (which it clearly isn't).
There clearly isn't anything else in play here. Either the Constitution works or the government is murdering you. Open and shut.
(Let alone the obvious existence of other countries that neither have a constitution nor are brutal dictatorships.)
You keep referring to "still breathing", as if state sanctioned murder of citizens for petty criticism is obligatory in the absence of the Constitution. There are plenty of countries without written constitutions where the post above wouldn't get you killed and there are plenty of reasons that have nothing to do with the Constitution to not murder people for speaking their mind.
Is the world really so black and white to you? Can we not complain about the shortcomings of our system of government until we are being dragged away and disappeared in the night?
A fair analysis, but he was directly comparing it to Chernobyl, which can be described similarly (except for the population issues and the correspondingly lower death toll). The 1975 failure was also enormously more damaging because it was a cascade failure, with one initial failure causing several downstream failures.
Dam failures in general tend to claim pretty big death tolls and extremely large property damage because of the amount of stored energy and the short time over which it is released. From the few US samples available, a recent failure caused enormously more damage than the most recent nuclear incident (and the same death toll, zero).
Hell, the same earthquake and tsunami that caused the Fukushima reactor failures caused a dam to fail, which killed 7 people.
While hydroelectric power is historically a new thing, dams have been around for ages and large pools of water held back by human devices are nothing to scoff at.
He's probably referring to the Banqiao Dam failure in 1975, which killed around 170,000 people.
High capacity hydroelectric plants involve dams, which are incredibly destructive when they fail. Even when they don't cause fatalities, dam failures often cause massive ecological damage (aside from the damage caused by damming a river in the first place).