If it's the same interface as the Galaxy Nexus pogo port, it's not mono sound but S/PDIF. The Galaxy Nexus docks went for $90, so it's no surprise they never caught on.
The pogo pin docks seemed like a great idea, but they were inexplicably expensive. They sold for $90, or more than a quarter of the cost of the entire phone. I ended up buying some pogo pins from mouser and making my own dock for $5 (it's only that much because you have to do some signalling through the third pin with a uC to get it to charge at a higher rate).
Finally, I don't see why meeting with a witness requires a location that is secret from the police... it's not as if the GPS is going to identify the witness. If it does, they can always turn it off.
And the fact that for the GPS to pick up the secret meet location, they'd have to be meeting the CI in a fucking police cruiser. That's not exactly discreet to begin with.
Please note that while they mentioned the main bill sponsor is a Democrat, ALL of the bill sponsors are Democrats.
Absolutely, because gun ownership is one of the authoritarian policies that is largely supported by people who self-identify as Democrats. Just like banning abortion and gay marriage, and enforcing Christian mores are popular authoritarian policies with the Republicans.
Don't make the mistake of extrapolating this one data point into the assumption that all authoritarians wear a (D), though. Both the Democrats and Republicans are highly authoritarian. The end of this game is a highly authoritarian US. If the Ds push their authoritarian policies when they can get away with it and the Rs do the same, then they both win in the end. As long as people excuse and allow the authoritarian movements when "their" party does it, we keep moving toward the horrible dystopia. It's like a terrible ratchet.
...the roo just bashed them into a tree tree or something.
By a little-known variation of Poe's Law, it's hard to tell if anything an Australian writes is a typo or not (especially if you read it with an accent)!
So, because people make poor decisions (poorly planned massive pullbacks) out of hysteria caused by anti-nuclear sentiment, nuclear is bad? That's a little circular isn't it?
Inevitable bad accidents in nuclear (which you can count on one hand and have killed fewer people than wind turbine servicing) are responsible for the move back to fossil fuels (which has orders of magnitude more "inevitable bad accidents" and kills many more people)? Don't pretend that this isn't what you want. Instead of steady progress and measured roll-out of renewables (which we are seeing currently), you want impulsive and poorly thought out binge installations driven by hysteria.
Do you have money on the line, or are you just driven by blind ideology? We need to tackle the power generation problem from a rational perspective. Making decisions based on emotional manipulation and hysteria never ends up well.
(Pardon any typos. I'm typing one handed because of a PV installation related injury! Irony aside, I'm very pro-solar. I'm just extremely anti-hysteria.)
I totally agree that we need more diversity in energy generation.
In the case of Japan they put too much faith in nuclear and didn't have enough diversity when it failed.
This is a misreading of the situation, though. "Nuclear" didn't fail; a single plant failed due to massive mismanagement and a huge natural disaster. More mismanagement led to shutting down all of the other reactors without a solid transition plan.
When a hydroelectric dam fails, nobody shuts down all other dams. When a fly ash reservoir spills and wipes out towns and huge areas of land, nobody shuts down all other coal plants. Because that is ridiculous and an obvious overreaction. Shutting down your country's power generation network in a blind panic is just as much of a management problem as having no power production diversity. This sloppy transition just demonstrates that the poor management that exacerbated the Fukushima incident is still driving the decisions in Japan.
That's more marketing garbage, though. Why no "low"? Will the average Joe know what "CAD" means? Will they assume it's "low" because otherwise there is no low and the salesweasel can use the confusion to sell them the most expensive card for solitaire? Your solution involves more of the crappy naming conventions that you just complained about!
"We don't have a 'small' order of fries. We have Extra-large, Extreme, and Super-mega sizes."
I think all of the more recent releases of international spying are because:
a) Informing the US population that their own government is spying on them generated almost no real reaction. It was a complete waste of airtime and I'm not sure what you could possibly release to get a reaction here.
b) The Guardian is in the UK and so international spying is a larger concern to them. To their credit, the international spying revelation has generated considerably more outrage.
Maybe you Americans are like that, but the rest of the world isn't. Before the US existed, the world was a peaceful place with puppies and rainbows and... I'm sorry, I can't keep this up with a straight face.
I just wanted to head off those who will inevitably chime in to say that something like this would never happen in their little utopia [sordid history of their country conveniently forgotten].
This is a good practice (and I really like KAOS as the bad guys). Always assume and plan for a sophisticated adversary, but never assume that their actions must be sophisticated. A bumbling opponent that gets things right often enough is great for that.
The "baby boomers" were born between 1946 and 1964. They're only 49-67 years old right now. The impression I'm getting from the oldest of the set is that they're not going to retire. They seem fully intent on dying in the lab.
So the utilities agreed to limit their choices by operating where they do.
Are you seriously saying that the law requiring utilities to buy back power from solar installations is a horrible breach of the free market but that the law requiring residents to do business with a company is just poor choice?
The idea here is to tag the vehicle and stop the "chase". One the cops back off the car, the run-away driver can stop driving like a lunatic. They were likely only driving at high speeds because they were being chased.
But this is how the US as a whole (which I am well aware is are silly as "slashdot as whole") displays itself.
You're reading into this too much. These shows aren't made as a representation of the US for foreign consumption. They're highly dramatized to provide "entertainment" to domestic viewers. They appear ridiculously over the top to US viewers, too, who recognize that what they're seeing on the TV is not what they see during their day to day life.
Drawing conclusions about the lives of ordinary people from TV shows and movies is not a valid approach. Even relatively tame shows like the [US or UK] version of The Office are considerably more exciting and interesting than an actual day at the office.
Long waits and second-tier care for the many, immediate boutique care for the few.
As someone who's taught many pre-med students and has family who've taught med students, I'll take a moment to dispute that point.
Almost all of the student's I've had whose primary interest was money and status were, without a doubt, the worst students in the class. They had no real interest in the subject matter and no passion for what they'd be expected to do. The idea of abandoning patients in need to give liposuction to old rich women is repulsive (in many ways) to genuinely passionate doctors. As long as normal doctors in a single payer system are making a decent salary, I would put my trust in them and not the greedy sociopaths that are so attracted to medicine today.
If you look back though history, traveling quacks were always eager to feed upon the stupid rich. It still happens in our time, too. There is no shortage of witch doctors and alternative healers. Ask Jobs... he saw it firsthand and he could afford the best medicine we have to offer.
I do drug research and I'm not part of a profit-chasing institution. There are still some doctors out there who treat people because medicine is their passion.
Without (massive) profit, the psychopathic profit-obsessed won't do anything worthwhile, but that doesn't mean good things can't still be accomplished. Most people aren't greedy profiteers. If all of the capital wasn't tied up in the hands of a sociopathic few, we could actually make a fair amount of progress.
I'm more interested in downloading the database (or at least a country-specific subset of it) and using it directly. It's growing right now, so the database will change a bit, but once it has matured weekly update would keep you pretty well up to date.
It looks like each submission weighs in at about 600 bytes, but the assembled data could be much smaller. How big do you think a completed database of, say, the US would be?
"The pilot would have walked away, if the flight were not unmanned."
vs
"The pilot would have walked away, if his legs hadn't been replaced with wheels as a child."
"Would have" was used appropriately in both sentences, yet the meanings of them are drastically different. Use if the definite article "the", without establishing which specific pilot we're talking about (the one who flew the test or a hypothetical pilot), is not proper English. English has an indefinite article, "a", which would have made the sentence much clearer. Using the indefinite article: "A pilot would have walked away," strongly implies that there was no pilot onboard and that we're referring to a hypothetical pilot.
Are you going for funny? reCAPTCHA has always been about deciphering books:
reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books, newspapers and old time radio shows.
reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher. More specifically, each word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is placed on an image and used as a CAPTCHA. This is possible because most OCR programs alert you when a word cannot be read correctly.
I think that your comment really cuts to the heart of it. The company didn't fire the man out of rational self-interest. To discuss the issue with him and (at least try, before firing him) to get him to discontinue would have stopped the activity and saved the company the cost of training his replacement.
The company (or most accurately, someone in management) was upset that someone violated their rules. Compliance and control were more important to the managers than costs to the company. Firing the employee outright is more of a power game than acting in rational self-interest.
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If it's the same interface as the Galaxy Nexus pogo port, it's not mono sound but S/PDIF. The Galaxy Nexus docks went for $90, so it's no surprise they never caught on.
The pogo pin docks seemed like a great idea, but they were inexplicably expensive. They sold for $90, or more than a quarter of the cost of the entire phone. I ended up buying some pogo pins from mouser and making my own dock for $5 (it's only that much because you have to do some signalling through the third pin with a uC to get it to charge at a higher rate).
Having dealt with different health issues over the years, it is difficult for the layperson to judge the quality of their health care.
...and that's no accident. It doesn't have to be that way.
Finally, I don't see why meeting with a witness requires a location that is secret from the police... it's not as if the GPS is going to identify the witness. If it does, they can always turn it off.
And the fact that for the GPS to pick up the secret meet location, they'd have to be meeting the CI in a fucking police cruiser. That's not exactly discreet to begin with.
Please note that while they mentioned the main bill sponsor is a Democrat, ALL of the bill sponsors are Democrats.
Absolutely, because gun ownership is one of the authoritarian policies that is largely supported by people who self-identify as Democrats. Just like banning abortion and gay marriage, and enforcing Christian mores are popular authoritarian policies with the Republicans.
Don't make the mistake of extrapolating this one data point into the assumption that all authoritarians wear a (D), though. Both the Democrats and Republicans are highly authoritarian. The end of this game is a highly authoritarian US. If the Ds push their authoritarian policies when they can get away with it and the Rs do the same, then they both win in the end. As long as people excuse and allow the authoritarian movements when "their" party does it, we keep moving toward the horrible dystopia. It's like a terrible ratchet.
...the roo just bashed them into a tree tree or something.
By a little-known variation of Poe's Law, it's hard to tell if anything an Australian writes is a typo or not (especially if you read it with an accent)!
So, because people make poor decisions (poorly planned massive pullbacks) out of hysteria caused by anti-nuclear sentiment, nuclear is bad? That's a little circular isn't it?
Inevitable bad accidents in nuclear (which you can count on one hand and have killed fewer people than wind turbine servicing) are responsible for the move back to fossil fuels (which has orders of magnitude more "inevitable bad accidents" and kills many more people)? Don't pretend that this isn't what you want. Instead of steady progress and measured roll-out of renewables (which we are seeing currently), you want impulsive and poorly thought out binge installations driven by hysteria.
Do you have money on the line, or are you just driven by blind ideology? We need to tackle the power generation problem from a rational perspective. Making decisions based on emotional manipulation and hysteria never ends up well.
(Pardon any typos. I'm typing one handed because of a PV installation related injury! Irony aside, I'm very pro-solar. I'm just extremely anti-hysteria.)
I totally agree that we need more diversity in energy generation.
In the case of Japan they put too much faith in nuclear and didn't have enough diversity when it failed.
This is a misreading of the situation, though. "Nuclear" didn't fail; a single plant failed due to massive mismanagement and a huge natural disaster. More mismanagement led to shutting down all of the other reactors without a solid transition plan.
When a hydroelectric dam fails, nobody shuts down all other dams. When a fly ash reservoir spills and wipes out towns and huge areas of land, nobody shuts down all other coal plants. Because that is ridiculous and an obvious overreaction. Shutting down your country's power generation network in a blind panic is just as much of a management problem as having no power production diversity. This sloppy transition just demonstrates that the poor management that exacerbated the Fukushima incident is still driving the decisions in Japan.
maybe 3 categories per year (mid, high, and CAD).
That's more marketing garbage, though. Why no "low"? Will the average Joe know what "CAD" means? Will they assume it's "low" because otherwise there is no low and the salesweasel can use the confusion to sell them the most expensive card for solitaire? Your solution involves more of the crappy naming conventions that you just complained about!
"We don't have a 'small' order of fries. We have Extra-large, Extreme, and Super-mega sizes."
I think all of the more recent releases of international spying are because:
a) Informing the US population that their own government is spying on them generated almost no real reaction. It was a complete waste of airtime and I'm not sure what you could possibly release to get a reaction here.
b) The Guardian is in the UK and so international spying is a larger concern to them. To their credit, the international spying revelation has generated considerably more outrage.
A glimmer of understanding, but not enough to apply it to those dirty Americans, eh? It's used exactly the same way in the US.
Maybe you Americans are like that, but the rest of the world isn't. Before the US existed, the world was a peaceful place with puppies and rainbows and... I'm sorry, I can't keep this up with a straight face.
I just wanted to head off those who will inevitably chime in to say that something like this would never happen in their little utopia [sordid history of their country conveniently forgotten].
This is a good practice (and I really like KAOS as the bad guys). Always assume and plan for a sophisticated adversary, but never assume that their actions must be sophisticated. A bumbling opponent that gets things right often enough is great for that.
The "baby boomers" were born between 1946 and 1964. They're only 49-67 years old right now. The impression I'm getting from the oldest of the set is that they're not going to retire. They seem fully intent on dying in the lab.
So the utilities agreed to limit their choices by operating where they do.
Are you seriously saying that the law requiring utilities to buy back power from solar installations is a horrible breach of the free market but that the law requiring residents to do business with a company is just poor choice?
I wouldn't be so sure of that.
The idea here is to tag the vehicle and stop the "chase". One the cops back off the car, the run-away driver can stop driving like a lunatic. They were likely only driving at high speeds because they were being chased.
But this is how the US as a whole (which I am well aware is are silly as "slashdot as whole") displays itself.
You're reading into this too much. These shows aren't made as a representation of the US for foreign consumption. They're highly dramatized to provide "entertainment" to domestic viewers. They appear ridiculously over the top to US viewers, too, who recognize that what they're seeing on the TV is not what they see during their day to day life.
Drawing conclusions about the lives of ordinary people from TV shows and movies is not a valid approach. Even relatively tame shows like the [US or UK] version of The Office are considerably more exciting and interesting than an actual day at the office.
Long waits and second-tier care for the many, immediate boutique care for the few.
As someone who's taught many pre-med students and has family who've taught med students, I'll take a moment to dispute that point.
Almost all of the student's I've had whose primary interest was money and status were, without a doubt, the worst students in the class. They had no real interest in the subject matter and no passion for what they'd be expected to do. The idea of abandoning patients in need to give liposuction to old rich women is repulsive (in many ways) to genuinely passionate doctors. As long as normal doctors in a single payer system are making a decent salary, I would put my trust in them and not the greedy sociopaths that are so attracted to medicine today.
If you look back though history, traveling quacks were always eager to feed upon the stupid rich. It still happens in our time, too. There is no shortage of witch doctors and alternative healers. Ask Jobs... he saw it firsthand and he could afford the best medicine we have to offer.
I do drug research and I'm not part of a profit-chasing institution. There are still some doctors out there who treat people because medicine is their passion.
Without (massive) profit, the psychopathic profit-obsessed won't do anything worthwhile, but that doesn't mean good things can't still be accomplished. Most people aren't greedy profiteers. If all of the capital wasn't tied up in the hands of a sociopathic few, we could actually make a fair amount of progress.
Oh, cool. You can run your own server and it's compatible with Google's API.
I'm more interested in downloading the database (or at least a country-specific subset of it) and using it directly. It's growing right now, so the database will change a bit, but once it has matured weekly update would keep you pretty well up to date.
It looks like each submission weighs in at about 600 bytes, but the assembled data could be much smaller. How big do you think a completed database of, say, the US would be?
"The pilot would have walked away, if the flight were not unmanned."
vs
"The pilot would have walked away, if his legs hadn't been replaced with wheels as a child."
"Would have" was used appropriately in both sentences, yet the meanings of them are drastically different. Use if the definite article "the", without establishing which specific pilot we're talking about (the one who flew the test or a hypothetical pilot), is not proper English. English has an indefinite article, "a", which would have made the sentence much clearer. Using the indefinite article: "A pilot would have walked away," strongly implies that there was no pilot onboard and that we're referring to a hypothetical pilot.
Are you going for funny? reCAPTCHA has always been about deciphering books:
reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books, newspapers and old time radio shows.
reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher. More specifically, each word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is placed on an image and used as a CAPTCHA. This is possible because most OCR programs alert you when a word cannot be read correctly.
I think that your comment really cuts to the heart of it. The company didn't fire the man out of rational self-interest. To discuss the issue with him and (at least try, before firing him) to get him to discontinue would have stopped the activity and saved the company the cost of training his replacement.
The company (or most accurately, someone in management) was upset that someone violated their rules. Compliance and control were more important to the managers than costs to the company. Firing the employee outright is more of a power game than acting in rational self-interest.