Simple enough, but of course, there's always the usual group, saying how bad nuclear power is
Ask them if they will agree to work with you to reduce the amount of nuclear waste we have piled up, and for the society if they will agree that leaving 300,000 year waste is irresponsible.
Ask them if they will agree that we can build machines to convert that 300,000 year waste into 300 year waste.
Ask them if it's OK to capture excess heat from that process and use it for productive purposes.
The current 30 pin has all sorts along with USB - composite video, stereo line out, firewire data and power (now unused), ipod accessory control, etc. It's much more than just a micro USB port, but it is overkill now that there's no need for the firewire pins, for example.
The costume was pretty awful - perhaps some of the TV execs in this generation are clueful enough to say, "ah, this productiont team isn't going to do a good job with Wonder Woman."
Joss Weadon was trying to do a WW film - he didn't get it made, but perhaps after the Avengers masterpiece they'll reconsider it. I don't know how the Marvel/DC politics work these days, though.
If you are serious about privacy Skype was never even an option!
Years ago they used to talk about end-to-end encryption on Skype. Guess that's gone. I agree, it was never verifiable, but then again it had a working echo cancellation algorithm when nobody else did.
How about this: it was thousands of individuals, working both in the public and private sector on different pieces of the puzzle, when all taken together, who developed the Internet.
And then it gets crazier: if any of those pieces were missing, the same problems would have been present, and they would have been solved in similar but slightly different ways. If not for ARPANET, perhaps Project Xanadu would have yielded a working model, and something like IP would have been developed to make the networking work.
And to top it off: regardless, the state of the Internet at any particular point is largely a function of the available computing power. Moore's Law is highly resistant to challenge, and it's unlikely that any major change of players would have affected the outcome much. My BBS'ing days on a C=64 with a 300-baud modem might have had hypertext in the Xanadu model, but it still would have been an 8-bit experience.
In summary: there are stupid questions, like "who really invented the Internet?"
Why can't more companies act this way towards one another?
Most US corporations have puritanical attitudes about having a drink during work hours. People tend to be stressed out, then after work they go get smashed and perhaps brawl outside the bar. Perhaps JD doesn't start off that way and their people wind up better for it.
The trick is, productivity and technology have continued their slope. Project out the trend prior to 1971 to present, and take the area between the steady-state wages and the expected wages, and that's the money that's being systematically stolen from the American people. But, since prices are staying largely the same due to the march of technology, most people don't see what's going on.
They also don't teach this kind of stuff in school, though it's easy enough to explain. At least our 'citizens' can quote 500-year-old playwrites, though, that's the important stuff.
Adblock Plus means I haven't seen ads on this site in years, and I haven't paid a cent
And if everybody did that, the site would cease to exist - it's not a scalable behavior. Your usage is parasitic on the community, definitionally. Fortunately for you, most people realize we can't all behave that way.
Did you have a happy childhood? If so, you'll probably be fine, even if you're a functional psychopath.
If you grew up in an abusive/broken home, you might want to go in for the PET scan and talk to a neuropsych doc about warning signs of impending trouble, especially if you have a bad life event happen.
If you've been through training to enhance psychopathic traits in normal people (e.g. military, politics, corporate ladder-climbing) you might also be at a higher risk.
There are support groups and decent pharmaceuticals that can help.
Could a certain percentage of people who commit violent crime share the common trait of psychopathy? Certainly. Do all?
Right. There are psychopaths who are perfectly fine and functional members of society. People often regard them as 'a bit off', but there is more to the psychology of a dangerous psychopath than just being a psychopath.
Check out this BBC Documentary about the neuropsychology of it. The documentary turns out more interesting than would be initially expected (not going to give it away).
That said, when designer babies are feasible, I doubt anybody is going to consciously select for psychopathy. Well, outside of the dystopian scifi realms anyway.
And what internet, exactly, do I see today? One that is "a bit faster, a bit sooner", and has more tracking code than content on it? You are seriously saying this is a good thing with a straight face? MOAR = GUD?
One that has search engines on it, one that has given millions of people gmail/hotmail type services which allow them to meaningfully use the Internet without a subscription fee, one that has all sorts of cloud services that are allowing people to not worry about local storage.
Hell, I've got a * next to my username, I pay Slashdot an astonishingly small amount of money per day. You don't - your Slashdot is funded by their ad model!
That's the most important thing you could say about it. The big failing of the Nolan movies for me is that Bruce Wayne is toying around with the idea of being Batman, and he thinks he likes it.
That said, I enjoyed the second one as a good film, if not good Batman.
Ah, well - maybe they'll get JMS to pen the next reboot.
This is news? Why would anyone expect our so-called "law enforcement" officers to be held to any standard of honesty or integrity nowadays?
Yeah, this is the completely expected outcome. Police can lie to you. That's part of their job. At no point should you believe that a cop is telling you the truth. Their job is to get information out of you, any way possible.
Now, if you do the same thing you're guilty of a crime (it's highly assymetrical).
But, knowing that, of course they're going to call up somebody on the phone and lie about who they are. Duh, this is America! Who thought the judge would rule otherwise?
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Simple enough, but of course, there's always the usual group, saying how bad nuclear power is
Ask them if they will agree to work with you to reduce the amount of nuclear waste we have piled up, and for the society if they will agree that leaving 300,000 year waste is irresponsible.
Ask them if they will agree that we can build machines to convert that 300,000 year waste into 300 year waste.
Ask them if it's OK to capture excess heat from that process and use it for productive purposes.
I dunno, but for the 40th Anniversary of Apple (2016) I'm betting they put out a Cougar release.
We want the Tick!
SPOOOOOOOOOOOOON!
Yeah, that's why it doesn't get made.
If the phone rings, THAT HURTS - it's about 90V @ 20Hz.
Raise your hand if you've ever stripped phone cable with your teeth when it just happened to ring ... oh, just me then.
It's the kind of experience that lends to *never* forgetting the wire strippers again.
The current 30 pin has all sorts along with USB - composite video, stereo line out, firewire data and power (now unused), ipod accessory control, etc. It's much more than just a micro USB port, but it is overkill now that there's no need for the firewire pins, for example.
Maybe it's this guy.
There's not much that an iPod can do that can't be communicated over USB and DisplayPort.
They filmed the pilot, but no one picked it up..
The costume was pretty awful - perhaps some of the TV execs in this generation are clueful enough to say, "ah, this productiont team isn't going to do a good job with Wonder Woman."
Joss Weadon was trying to do a WW film - he didn't get it made, but perhaps after the Avengers masterpiece they'll reconsider it. I don't know how the Marvel/DC politics work these days, though.
If you are serious about privacy Skype was never even an option!
Years ago they used to talk about end-to-end encryption on Skype. Guess that's gone. I agree, it was never verifiable, but then again it had a working echo cancellation algorithm when nobody else did.
How about this: it was thousands of individuals, working both in the public and private sector on different pieces of the puzzle, when all taken together, who developed the Internet.
And then it gets crazier: if any of those pieces were missing, the same problems would have been present, and they would have been solved in similar but slightly different ways. If not for ARPANET, perhaps Project Xanadu would have yielded a working model, and something like IP would have been developed to make the networking work.
And to top it off: regardless, the state of the Internet at any particular point is largely a function of the available computing power. Moore's Law is highly resistant to challenge, and it's unlikely that any major change of players would have affected the outcome much. My BBS'ing days on a C=64 with a 300-baud modem might have had hypertext in the Xanadu model, but it still would have been an 8-bit experience.
In summary: there are stupid questions, like "who really invented the Internet?"
How does curing disease satisfy the libido dominandi?
You can't, and it's a feature that prevents people from changing the conversation history. Preview is your friend.
Transparent edit history is even friendlier. :)
Why can't more companies act this way towards one another?
Most US corporations have puritanical attitudes about having a drink during work hours. People tend to be stressed out, then after work they go get smashed and perhaps brawl outside the bar. Perhaps JD doesn't start off that way and their people wind up better for it.
Have a look at the chart . You can see the impact of technology (productivity) on wages during the mid 20th century. There's a very steady slope upwards. Then, with the big monetary change in 1971, the slope statistically flatlines.
The trick is, productivity and technology have continued their slope. Project out the trend prior to 1971 to present, and take the area between the steady-state wages and the expected wages, and that's the money that's being systematically stolen from the American people. But, since prices are staying largely the same due to the march of technology, most people don't see what's going on.
They also don't teach this kind of stuff in school, though it's easy enough to explain. At least our 'citizens' can quote 500-year-old playwrites, though, that's the important stuff.
merged back in May
heh, figures - I gave up on BTRFS after a year, in April.
Kudos to Josef - everybody else was telling me, "too bad that Firefox is so stupid, btrfs needs to work this way."
Sounds like it's time to try again!
I was there...there was no advertising of note the first few years. The explosion was still happening.
And who was paying for the backbone?
Search engines != the internet
They're an enabling technology to scale. Heck, even the guys who authored the DNS spec knew this was going to be needed, that far in advance.
And you want to give credit to advertising? Really?!?
As a necessary, but not sufficient component, yes.
Without commerce there would be little to fund the Internet. Advertising is part of commerce.
Adblock Plus means I haven't seen ads on this site in years, and I haven't paid a cent
And if everybody did that, the site would cease to exist - it's not a scalable behavior. Your usage is parasitic on the community, definitionally. Fortunately for you, most people realize we can't all behave that way.
Advertisement isn't the problem though, it's just ONE form of deception.
I advertise my business, I don't deceive anybody.
"this Autobahn was payed for by Nazis, therefore only the Nazis could have built an Autobahn."
That's your argument basically, as far as I can tell.
Oh, the irony, it burns.
So, you mean, is there any hope for me?
Did you have a happy childhood? If so, you'll probably be fine, even if you're a functional psychopath.
If you grew up in an abusive/broken home, you might want to go in for the PET scan and talk to a neuropsych doc about warning signs of impending trouble, especially if you have a bad life event happen.
If you've been through training to enhance psychopathic traits in normal people (e.g. military, politics, corporate ladder-climbing) you might also be at a higher risk.
There are support groups and decent pharmaceuticals that can help.
Could a certain percentage of people who commit violent crime share the common trait of psychopathy? Certainly. Do all?
Right. There are psychopaths who are perfectly fine and functional members of society. People often regard them as 'a bit off', but there is more to the psychology of a dangerous psychopath than just being a psychopath.
Check out this BBC Documentary about the neuropsychology of it. The documentary turns out more interesting than would be initially expected (not going to give it away).
That said, when designer babies are feasible, I doubt anybody is going to consciously select for psychopathy. Well, outside of the dystopian scifi realms anyway.
And what internet, exactly, do I see today? One that is "a bit faster, a bit sooner", and has more tracking code than content on it? You are seriously saying this is a good thing with a straight face? MOAR = GUD?
One that has search engines on it, one that has given millions of people gmail/hotmail type services which allow them to meaningfully use the Internet without a subscription fee, one that has all sorts of cloud services that are allowing people to not worry about local storage.
Hell, I've got a * next to my username, I pay Slashdot an astonishingly small amount of money per day. You don't - your Slashdot is funded by their ad model!
Are you just a ad exec or something, that you would put all the other things happening in the mid 90's behind advertising. Yeesh.
Tell me which search engines exist without an advertising model.
Bruce Wayne is the mask
That's the most important thing you could say about it. The big failing of the Nolan movies for me is that Bruce Wayne is toying around with the idea of being Batman, and he thinks he likes it.
That said, I enjoyed the second one as a good film, if not good Batman.
Ah, well - maybe they'll get JMS to pen the next reboot.
Most "neurotypicals", as you call them, realise that this review is badly timed and shows insensitivity.
Huh? Do you really think nobody is going to go see Batman this weekend out of some sort of twisted feeling of moral obligation to societal guilt?
Plenty of people will appropriately separate the movie from the atrocity and go see it because they've been wanting to.
Actually, if I were WB, I'd pledge all of Sunday's profits to a victims' fund, just to keep the ball rolling.
This is news? Why would anyone expect our so-called "law enforcement" officers to be held to any standard of honesty or integrity nowadays?
Yeah, this is the completely expected outcome. Police can lie to you. That's part of their job. At no point should you believe that a cop is telling you the truth. Their job is to get information out of you, any way possible.
Now, if you do the same thing you're guilty of a crime (it's highly assymetrical).
But, knowing that, of course they're going to call up somebody on the phone and lie about who they are. Duh, this is America! Who thought the judge would rule otherwise?