Given the universality of gravity on earth it is very unlikely that there is a considerable difference in viability in low gravity between individuals, unlike for example disease resistance.
The slight differences are enough material for evolution to work on, what more artificial selection. The main problem I see with the latter approach is how to sell process to the population. If you think China's fairly egalitarian one-child policy is cruel, then a no-child policy would be way more cruel for the unfortunate majority whose set of genes must be culled. I can just imagine the jealousy a childless couple would feel for a neighbor authorized to have six children.
Weird that the summary doesn't include a link to the BMJ study itself, titled "Use of positive and negative words in scientific PubMed abstracts between 1974 and 2014: retrospective analysis". Whatever you might think of their findings, at least you can't fault the authors for hyping their study. Hype, I suspect, is a symptom of the data epidemic of our times. Readers, or what's left of them, need to know fast if something's worth reading. The more "tweetable" the title, the more eyeballs a study gets, never mind if it's positive or negative. And this goes not just for academic studies but for Donald Trump as well.
This was a deliberate move by the FSF, because computers that need passwords aren't really free, are they?
Title is obviously wrong. As you should well know, Grub is Not Linux!
Seriously, the title is wrong, since Grub is a pre-OS environment used to load the actual operating systems, including not just Linux, but Windows and the BSDs. Saying this is a Linux bug is like blaming Microsoft for a BIOS bug.
Perhaps more damaging is the claim it was done for amusement: "Claiming the name Anonymous, those responsible for a weekend data breach at the European Space Agency (ESA) said the act was one of pure amusement (lulz) and not part of a larger scheme or protest."
ISIS and Trump at least deserved some sort of mass attack.
Your have absolutely no property rights, other than what your Government protects. Realize what you call your property rights is something people of this country have voluntarily agreed to respect. You can imagine all sorts of rights. Enforcing them without the cooperation of the people around you is impossible. You will be reduced to yet another old man yelling at kids to get off "his" grass.
If that's your point of view, then why stop at property rights? How about "you have absolutely no human rights, other than what your Government protects"?
Most people outside the USA can't vote for or against Trump. Some members of Anonymous are non-Americans, and while misguided, this may well be their way of trying to "convince" those who can vote not to vote for Trump.
Ah. So we are all stupid. Nice. How about explaining what Anonymous is? As @TWX said they are an unstructured group with no leadership hierarchy. If they are not that then they are a structured group with a leadership hierarchy. However, I assume that you will deny this too. So please enlighten us and explain what Anonymous is. Thanks in advance.
I think the grandparent actually agrees with TWX. AC calls Anonymous the "anti-Illuminati", a secretive but elitist group. While its members figuratively and sometimes literally wear masks, Anonymous isn't an exclusive club. Everybody is free to join and free to leave, which is one of the reasons, but not the only reason, why Anonymous is an "unstructured" leaderless group. For how can you have structure, when the parts keep coming and going?
It matters because 100 years from now, people will want to know in much the same way we want to know the people who gave birth to much of our present day civilisation... the Newtons, Marconis, Teslas, Edissons, Berners-Lees, Da Vincis, Graham Bells, Franklins, Einsteins, Pasteur, Curies, Wright Brothers and lots more.
Much of our present civilization was invented by Mr. & Ms. Anonymous. Who invented the wheel? Who invented language? Who invented music, fine arts, war, the missionary position, agriculture, printing, writing, religion, the scientific method, weaving, astrology, alchemy, chemistry, or algebra? Sure, we can identify certain groups like the Chinese, who are said to have invented printing a few hundred years before the pretender named Gutenberg, or the Arabs, for having laid down the foundations of algebra. But most inventions cannot be traced to a single individual.
And even when there's a definite inventor, we often find examples of parallel invention. Darwin and Newton weren't the only geniuses thinking of the evolution of species or calculus respectively. They were part of a wave trending toward the solution of some then mysterious phenomena.
For what's worth, let's hope that our descendants forget the patent troll named Edison.
I don't see anything in the article that says odd-numbered plates would be allowed only in odd-numbered days, or even-numbered plates on even-numbered days. All it says is "that vehicles with odd and even number plates would be allowed on alternate days only from January 1, 2016".
A common way of implementing the odd-even scheme is to divide the week into six days, with Monday as the first day and Saturday as the sixth day. This makes for three odd-numbered days and three even-numbered days. The seventh day, Sunday, is exempted as a low traffic volume day.
"California Attack Has Some Random Slashdot Poster Rethinking Strategy on Homegrown Terror".
There, I fixed that for you.
Not just some random poster. The title is actually from the linked NY Times article, right down to the URL. So there's some serious discussion going on, whether we like what comes out of it or not.
Yes, I know it's about acceleration. But I'm curious why the hyperloop can't speed up gradually. After all, the G-forces in a jet plane are pretty much bearable unless we're talking about fighter pilots.
What I mean is the seedless banana which the human eat
Actually seedless bananas are mutants - if you go to the forest in Indonesia / Malaysia there are varieties of banana - edible, but filled with seeds
The 'mutant' seedless banana which the human eat can not reproduce 'sexually' - they produce their offsprings by 'cloning' (natural cloning), all shooting up from the same network of root
Why would a "seeded" banana be difficult to eat? I'm not a banana expert, but the things that look like soft, immature seeds in a typical supermarket banana are all packed in the center. It's easy to nibble around them, much like how you'd eat an apple.
I keep reading news about Chinese state-sponsored network attacks. Is there actually independent, third-party, non-government proof about this? I can think of a scenario where the IPs all come from China but the attacker is from some place else. Wouldn't it be possible the IPs come from compromised computers? How do yu distinguish a state-sponsored attack from an attack by the Chinese equivalent of Anonymous?
Since he's selling his stock, he's also selling management of the company.
He may not be selling his stock. He can donate the stock directly to his foundation, and take the tax write-off, without selling it. Then he can name himself and Priscilla as trustees of the foundation. So he can give away his stock, but still retain full voting rights and control of Facebook.
This is also speculation. But this falls in line with what Bill Gates and the other super-techno-rich are doing or are planning to do. Philanthropy is a different beast from your typical street corner charity. If I donate to a charity, I basically don't have any control over how the money is spent, whether it goes to feed the poor, save the turtles, or arm Al-Qaeda. Of course, I can refuse to donate in the future the minute I learn about the charity's shenanigans. On the other hand, something like the Gates Foundation could target specific projects and by the implicit or explicit threat of withholding future funding steer them in the direction it wants.
So while Zuckerberg might give away his Facebook shares, he could conceivably buy moral, if not actual control of some non-profit organizations whose broad goals happen to align with his vision of a better future. It would be highly cynical to compare this to a corporate stock swap, but the effect could be the same.
I became an instant fan of the OTRAG when I first came upon it in some random space forum. I thought its failure was all because of an anti-German conspiracy by the Soviets and US. I now see your point about multiple points of failure being just that, multiple possibilities of failing, which isn't so bad if the units just fail silently instead of going kaboom.
So I guess it's the big dumb boosters of Space X and friends until we figure out how to get something truly scifi-ish like the Skylon off the ground.
The curse of the Flash brand name is that it rhymes with a common computer problem, crash, not to mention trash. Maybe Adobe was thinking a longer name would be more difficult for critics to pun. Adobe Obliterate or Defecate, doesn't have the punch of Adobe Crash.
Yes, and any Russian project is going to be beset by graft and corruption. Look how much the Sochi Olympics cost.
Yes, and the amazing thing is they still manage to fly. The NASA budget is over 10x that of the Russian space agency, which almost feels like an alt-space company like Space X.
Slashdot Mirror
Given the universality of gravity on earth it is very unlikely that there is a considerable difference in viability in low gravity between individuals, unlike for example disease resistance.
The slight differences are enough material for evolution to work on, what more artificial selection. The main problem I see with the latter approach is how to sell process to the population. If you think China's fairly egalitarian one-child policy is cruel, then a no-child policy would be way more cruel for the unfortunate majority whose set of genes must be culled. I can just imagine the jealousy a childless couple would feel for a neighbor authorized to have six children.
Weird that the summary doesn't include a link to the BMJ study itself, titled "Use of positive and negative words in scientific PubMed abstracts between 1974 and 2014: retrospective analysis". Whatever you might think of their findings, at least you can't fault the authors for hyping their study. Hype, I suspect, is a symptom of the data epidemic of our times. Readers, or what's left of them, need to know fast if something's worth reading. The more "tweetable" the title, the more eyeballs a study gets, never mind if it's positive or negative. And this goes not just for academic studies but for Donald Trump as well.
You're late to the party, bootloaderd was already integrated into biosd.
This was a deliberate move by the FSF, because computers that need passwords aren't really free, are they?
Title is obviously wrong. As you should well know, Grub is Not Linux!
Seriously, the title is wrong, since Grub is a pre-OS environment used to load the actual operating systems, including not just Linux, but Windows and the BSDs. Saying this is a Linux bug is like blaming Microsoft for a BIOS bug.
Perhaps more damaging is the claim it was done for amusement: "Claiming the name Anonymous, those responsible for a weekend data breach at the European Space Agency (ESA) said the act was one of pure amusement (lulz) and not part of a larger scheme or protest."
ISIS and Trump at least deserved some sort of mass attack.
Your have absolutely no property rights, other than what your Government protects. Realize what you call your property rights is something people of this country have voluntarily agreed to respect. You can imagine all sorts of rights. Enforcing them without the cooperation of the people around you is impossible. You will be reduced to yet another old man yelling at kids to get off "his" grass.
If that's your point of view, then why stop at property rights? How about "you have absolutely no human rights, other than what your Government protects"?
Solar power is just nuclear power done in a very inefficient way.
On the contrary. It is nuclear power without most of the risks involved and even without having to mine dangerous materials.
If solar is nuclear power, then so is oil and coal. By burning oil and coal, we unleash the solar power stored in these fossils fuels.
Yeah, a technophiliac's wet dream to drown in even more data.
Has fundamental physics always been synonymous with gigawatts of energy?
Most people outside the USA can't vote for or against Trump. Some members of Anonymous are non-Americans, and while misguided, this may well be their way of trying to "convince" those who can vote not to vote for Trump.
Ah. So we are all stupid. Nice. How about explaining what Anonymous is? As @TWX said they are an unstructured group with no leadership hierarchy. If they are not that then they are a structured group with a leadership hierarchy. However, I assume that you will deny this too. So please enlighten us and explain what Anonymous is. Thanks in advance.
I think the grandparent actually agrees with TWX. AC calls Anonymous the "anti-Illuminati", a secretive but elitist group. While its members figuratively and sometimes literally wear masks, Anonymous isn't an exclusive club. Everybody is free to join and free to leave, which is one of the reasons, but not the only reason, why Anonymous is an "unstructured" leaderless group. For how can you have structure, when the parts keep coming and going?
Too bad movies don't come with a money-back guarantee. (No comma after bad)
It matters because 100 years from now, people will want to know in much the same way we want to know the people who gave birth to much of our present day civilisation... the Newtons, Marconis, Teslas, Edissons, Berners-Lees, Da Vincis, Graham Bells, Franklins, Einsteins, Pasteur, Curies, Wright Brothers and lots more.
Much of our present civilization was invented by Mr. & Ms. Anonymous. Who invented the wheel? Who invented language? Who invented music, fine arts, war, the missionary position, agriculture, printing, writing, religion, the scientific method, weaving, astrology, alchemy, chemistry, or algebra? Sure, we can identify certain groups like the Chinese, who are said to have invented printing a few hundred years before the pretender named Gutenberg, or the Arabs, for having laid down the foundations of algebra. But most inventions cannot be traced to a single individual.
And even when there's a definite inventor, we often find examples of parallel invention. Darwin and Newton weren't the only geniuses thinking of the evolution of species or calculus respectively. They were part of a wave trending toward the solution of some then mysterious phenomena.
For what's worth, let's hope that our descendants forget the patent troll named Edison.
You have to be good at spitting that thing.
I don't see anything in the article that says odd-numbered plates would be allowed only in odd-numbered days, or even-numbered plates on even-numbered days. All it says is "that vehicles with odd and even number plates would be allowed on alternate days only from January 1, 2016".
A common way of implementing the odd-even scheme is to divide the week into six days, with Monday as the first day and Saturday as the sixth day. This makes for three odd-numbered days and three even-numbered days. The seventh day, Sunday, is exempted as a low traffic volume day.
"California Attack Has Some Random Slashdot Poster Rethinking Strategy on Homegrown Terror". There, I fixed that for you.
Not just some random poster. The title is actually from the linked NY Times article, right down to the URL. So there's some serious discussion going on, whether we like what comes out of it or not.
Yes, I know it's about acceleration. But I'm curious why the hyperloop can't speed up gradually. After all, the G-forces in a jet plane are pretty much bearable unless we're talking about fighter pilots.
What I mean is the seedless banana which the human eat
Actually seedless bananas are mutants - if you go to the forest in Indonesia / Malaysia there are varieties of banana - edible, but filled with seeds
The 'mutant' seedless banana which the human eat can not reproduce 'sexually' - they produce their offsprings by 'cloning' (natural cloning), all shooting up from the same network of root
Why would a "seeded" banana be difficult to eat? I'm not a banana expert, but the things that look like soft, immature seeds in a typical supermarket banana are all packed in the center. It's easy to nibble around them, much like how you'd eat an apple.
Since the top speed is barely supersonic, wouldn't the g-forces here be comparable to a commercial jet plane?
I keep reading news about Chinese state-sponsored network attacks. Is there actually independent, third-party, non-government proof about this? I can think of a scenario where the IPs all come from China but the attacker is from some place else. Wouldn't it be possible the IPs come from compromised computers? How do yu distinguish a state-sponsored attack from an attack by the Chinese equivalent of Anonymous?
Since he's selling his stock, he's also selling management of the company.
He may not be selling his stock. He can donate the stock directly to his foundation, and take the tax write-off, without selling it. Then he can name himself and Priscilla as trustees of the foundation. So he can give away his stock, but still retain full voting rights and control of Facebook.
This is also speculation. But this falls in line with what Bill Gates and the other super-techno-rich are doing or are planning to do. Philanthropy is a different beast from your typical street corner charity. If I donate to a charity, I basically don't have any control over how the money is spent, whether it goes to feed the poor, save the turtles, or arm Al-Qaeda. Of course, I can refuse to donate in the future the minute I learn about the charity's shenanigans. On the other hand, something like the Gates Foundation could target specific projects and by the implicit or explicit threat of withholding future funding steer them in the direction it wants.
So while Zuckerberg might give away his Facebook shares, he could conceivably buy moral, if not actual control of some non-profit organizations whose broad goals happen to align with his vision of a better future. It would be highly cynical to compare this to a corporate stock swap, but the effect could be the same.
I became an instant fan of the OTRAG when I first came upon it in some random space forum. I thought its failure was all because of an anti-German conspiracy by the Soviets and US. I now see your point about multiple points of failure being just that, multiple possibilities of failing, which isn't so bad if the units just fail silently instead of going kaboom.
So I guess it's the big dumb boosters of Space X and friends until we figure out how to get something truly scifi-ish like the Skylon off the ground.
The curse of the Flash brand name is that it rhymes with a common computer problem, crash, not to mention trash. Maybe Adobe was thinking a longer name would be more difficult for critics to pun. Adobe Obliterate or Defecate, doesn't have the punch of Adobe Crash.
A missile explodes on impact, a rocket explodes in flight.
Yes, and any Russian project is going to be beset by graft and corruption. Look how much the Sochi Olympics cost.
Yes, and the amazing thing is they still manage to fly. The NASA budget is over 10x that of the Russian space agency, which almost feels like an alt-space company like Space X.