And why would we want girls whose number one concern is that in science?
Because China is set to clean the EU's clock in a couple decades, so a bunch of people who think science is annoying and nerdy are afraid for their power. So they hired marketing people who think science is annoying and nerdy to try to convince girls to go into science. And that brings us to the present day.
Start 'em early. If you raise your daughter on Disney Princess and Barbie, that's what will be instilled as their formative values. Do better, buy your daughter a ray gun.
I don''t see how making it public would encourage trolls. If everyone already knows then the trolls do too.
The trolls don't know which patents are being 'violated'. You can't simply go fishing with discovery. "Your honor, it stands to reason that the defendant is probably using our patents, so we'd like to see all the source and design documents for their core products. Our evidence is that we suspect they owe us money." What judge is going to go along with that?
I don't understand why these Microsoft-style closed source morons always think not allowing people to use what they sell will help them.
You're asking a question about market behavior, but the problem isn't a market problem (what you say makes sense, in a free market). Since the expected market behaviors don't exist, you have to ask, "why is this market broken?"
The standard answer is that they're violating thousands of patents six ways to Sunday, and the more open they are about their hardware the more risk they expose on these being found out.
Of course all the manufacturers are doing it because the patent system is so screwed up and the product would be impractical otherwise. People get grants on the obvious and necessary techniques all the time. And it's not just the big three where they could cross-license - there are trolls out there who just want to be parasites on the successful shops.
As usual, this is social engineering run amok. Yes, the reason you can't have good video drivers for linux is because the government has screwed up this market too. Take away this patent morass, and the vendors become interested in selling cards any way they can. Of course, the smartest-kids-in-the-room will now chime in and say that there simply wouldn't be any good video cards without the government getting involved. You decide which acutally makes sense.
Yeah, that's the second time you've tried that. I don't think anybody at home is going to be confused by conflating the two issues. In case you really don't get it I'll try again: it can't be the right thing to do to treat the individual, but it's still bad for society.
mean, do you fucking think for ONE GODDAMNED SECOND that the people in charge are like "well, no, we don't want to go to war, because our soldiers may experience PTSD".
There are absolutely political calculations, including domestic response/approval that goes into a decision to go to war. Wounded veterans (physically or mentally) is a big part of that. You're either ignorant or foolish if you think all non-defensive wars don't get political consideration and that the actual prosecution of the wars, once started, isn't influenced by political calculations dependent on the status quo.
If you think I'm being a bit over the top, or maybe coming across rude, it is because I despise everything you've said in this thread here with every ounce of my being, and disagree with it profoundly.
Get ahold of yourself. Emotional outbursts aren't impressive or persuasive.
Don't depend on me, I've just related what I've read in articles. I cited the authority already - call the docs at Walter Reed who study this if you need to see an MD degree.
Rofl fantastic. You're opposed to medicine because it will make people more willing to fight as well, right?
If you look up at the subject line, it says that it can be both good for the individual and bad for society. That's a point of moral ambiguity, not opposition.
Violence is morally neutral. Like all tools, it is how you use it.
Right, which is why I wrote that it's unfortunate that it's being used to make war more palatable.
PTSD is reassuring for me in a way - if humans were truly naturally murderous beasts, as some would like to insist, PTSD would be very rare or non-existant. But it isn't, and we're not built for heinous acts - more bonobo than chimp, as it were.
The trick is, if PTSD is 'curable' then there are even fewer consequences for sending in men to do terrible things to other people. We're already learning that the lower the domestic cost of war is, the more politicians engage in it. I don't want veterans to suffer, but this is all headed in the wrong direction.
under the assumption that the drug will block their memories of the event, and even though their conscious memories of it are gone later, they suffer PTSD type symptoms after the fact.
This sounds like wildly incompetent malpractice then. Even if you're going to get 'routine' major surgery with general anaesthetic you should insist on a spinal block for pain. The anaesthetic blocks out frontal lobe consciousness and some memory formation, but other parts of the brain are going, "holy fuck, I'm being sawn in half!" which leads to major brain trauma and long-lasting problems. Ever know somebody who came out of surgery 'changed'?
Docs at Walter Reed have been on the forefront for a while, because screwed up soldiers are expensive. But regardless of their cost cutting motivations, this should be well known in anaesthesia by now...
Except I'd tell the UN, with their grabby little paws, to get stuffed so probably I don't qualify. Oh, and the offices are moving from LA to Bermuda or Grand Cayman.
Oh, and I outsource registration for the new TLD's to existing registrars with good track records, so people don't need to use ICA clients to virtual machines with dubious availability to fill out forms.
OK, one more: I reduce the ICANN fees by 75%, but only after there's enough money to build a 50' monument to Jon Postel outside HQ.
I'm going to avoid bashing the stereotype there, and just say that it's not all about improving service and customer satisfaction. I know some people who work in management at construction-industry companies, and they actually have a real problem with workers leaving the office in the morning and going on detours to run errands, stop off at the bar, even hit the arcade on the way to the job site. Or, leaving early in the afternoon, etc.
They have a real ethical problem when generating the bill for the client, if they're billing for hours when nobody was there. It's cheaper to eat the loss than to hire a foreman.
Spot checks help, somewhat. Sure, you could just fire all the less-than-honest workers, but then there are training costs, and the fact that those people will go work somwhere else, so it's just shifting the problem in societal terms.
It's sad to say, but some people just aren't honest, unless they're being held accountable. If we become what we do, something like this might even help train those sorts of people to be honest.
I can't believe people would be willing to do this.
Heck, if there was a smartphone that could last a few days on a charge (so I'd be interested in owning one) I'd probably use this to track myself.
Ever forget, even just once, to write down your hours at a remote site and not catch it until billing time later on? Good luck trying to bill for hours you can't accurately account for. Eating an entire day's worth of job revenue because of a clerical error really hurts. I once tried using a Tom Tom to do this sort of data logging, but it was buggy on some hardware (but worked on others).
For many reasons, I'd prefer employees to have a work phone and a personal phone. Something like this should only be on a work phone that gets turned off during non-work hours. But, it's been shown that being tracked reduces field workers screwing-off on company time and so these solutions pay for themselves. n.b. - I've got no problem with a worker stopping off at the pub for a long lunch, but at least be honest and 'clock out' if you're having beers with your buds.
I'm unclear - are you suggesting that Slashdotters should all be reading Hack-A-Day, know the Apple App Store inside and out, or that the information is time-sensitive enough to not be worth posting today?
Do they refuse to accept tax payments from any residents who are employed by any company with ties to the nuclear industry? Because that would be blood money, yanno?
Of course, now that you have (snapshot-)transactional semantics, you need transactional syntax. That means changes to POSIX.
OK
Woops.
POSIX 1 lasted about three years. POSIX 2 has lasted twenty.
If the choice really is rebooting *nix boxes to be able to handle package updates OR specifying POSIX 3, I doubt too many of the IEEE guys who worked on POSIX 2 are going to get their feelings bent out of shape. I'd imagine some of them would recoil in terror at the notion of rebooting a unix box to update Firefox.
But, I suspect that with Linux Containers, it's probably unnecessary. Perhaps we don't have support yet for being able to pin a version of a filesystem to a cgroup, but I haven't delved too deeply into it.
Btrfs performance is bad due to a lot of seeks. With a SSD and Facebook's Flashcache to cache your rotating clunkers it performs very nicely.
Don't apologize for bad performance. ZFS has a very similar feature set to BTRFS but it doesn't have all these problems. Maybe BTRFS just isn't ready yet - I wonder if the developers ever feel like they'd wish people stopped rushing it into production.
Anyway, I use SSD+Flashcache on some servers - it works great. But that shouldn't be the minimum system requirement for a Fedora machine.
That's good stuff. Linux distributions need to stay nimble and borrow liberally from other good ideas.
I experienced rollback upgrades with nexenta, and liked that quite a bit. ZFS >> BTRFS right now, though.
I'm using Puppet to describe a test cluster, and I absolutely love that (at least the ideas if not the expression necessarily). Functional declaration is absolutely the right way to do things. I've been wondering about how something like Puppet (if not Puppet) should become integral to Fedora. Yum, rpm, puppet - all essential pieces to the puzzle.
If none of the distributions evolve, a new one will spring up that implements these ideas and rapidly steal mindshare.
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And why would we want girls whose number one concern is that in science?
Because China is set to clean the EU's clock in a couple decades, so a bunch of people who think science is annoying and nerdy are afraid for their power. So they hired marketing people who think science is annoying and nerdy to try to convince girls to go into science. And that brings us to the present day.
If you really want to close the gender gap
Start 'em early. If you raise your daughter on Disney Princess and Barbie, that's what will be instilled as their formative values. Do better, buy your daughter a ray gun.
I don''t see how making it public would encourage trolls. If everyone already knows then the trolls do too.
The trolls don't know which patents are being 'violated'. You can't simply go fishing with discovery. "Your honor, it stands to reason that the defendant is probably using our patents, so we'd like to see all the source and design documents for their core products. Our evidence is that we suspect they owe us money." What judge is going to go along with that?
I don't understand why these Microsoft-style closed source morons always think not allowing people to use what they sell will help them.
You're asking a question about market behavior, but the problem isn't a market problem (what you say makes sense, in a free market). Since the expected market behaviors don't exist, you have to ask, "why is this market broken?"
The standard answer is that they're violating thousands of patents six ways to Sunday, and the more open they are about their hardware the more risk they expose on these being found out.
Of course all the manufacturers are doing it because the patent system is so screwed up and the product would be impractical otherwise. People get grants on the obvious and necessary techniques all the time. And it's not just the big three where they could cross-license - there are trolls out there who just want to be parasites on the successful shops.
As usual, this is social engineering run amok. Yes, the reason you can't have good video drivers for linux is because the government has screwed up this market too. Take away this patent morass, and the vendors become interested in selling cards any way they can. Of course, the smartest-kids-in-the-room will now chime in and say that there simply wouldn't be any good video cards without the government getting involved. You decide which acutally makes sense.
Ah, you're insisting on a particular legal standard. I'm talking about common usage and a violation of the Hippocratic Oath.
Here's the general definition:
If part of a procedure is skipped that is known to prevent harm, I don't know what else you'd call it.
it can't be the right thing to do to treat the individual, but it's still bad for society.
err ... sloppy editing/proofreading. Sorry 'bout that. Once more:
it can be the right thing to do to treat the individual, but also still bad for society.
there, almost valid English.
it doesn't excuse being opposed to medicine
Yeah, that's the second time you've tried that. I don't think anybody at home is going to be confused by conflating the two issues. In case you really don't get it I'll try again: it can't be the right thing to do to treat the individual, but it's still bad for society.
mean, do you fucking think for ONE GODDAMNED SECOND that the people in charge are like "well, no, we don't want to go to war, because our soldiers may experience PTSD".
There are absolutely political calculations, including domestic response/approval that goes into a decision to go to war. Wounded veterans (physically or mentally) is a big part of that. You're either ignorant or foolish if you think all non-defensive wars don't get political consideration and that the actual prosecution of the wars, once started, isn't influenced by political calculations dependent on the status quo.
If you think I'm being a bit over the top, or maybe coming across rude, it is because I despise everything you've said in this thread here with every ounce of my being, and disagree with it profoundly.
Get ahold of yourself. Emotional outbursts aren't impressive or persuasive.
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Thanks. Just added it to my list.
Don't depend on me, I've just related what I've read in articles. I cited the authority already - call the docs at Walter Reed who study this if you need to see an MD degree.
Rofl fantastic. You're opposed to medicine because it will make people more willing to fight as well, right?
If you look up at the subject line, it says that it can be both good for the individual and bad for society. That's a point of moral ambiguity, not opposition.
Violence is morally neutral. Like all tools, it is how you use it.
Right, which is why I wrote that it's unfortunate that it's being used to make war more palatable.
PTSD is reassuring for me in a way - if humans were truly naturally murderous beasts, as some would like to insist, PTSD would be very rare or non-existant. But it isn't, and we're not built for heinous acts - more bonobo than chimp, as it were.
The trick is, if PTSD is 'curable' then there are even fewer consequences for sending in men to do terrible things to other people. We're already learning that the lower the domestic cost of war is, the more politicians engage in it. I don't want veterans to suffer, but this is all headed in the wrong direction.
under the assumption that the drug will block their memories of the event, and even though their conscious memories of it are gone later, they suffer PTSD type symptoms after the fact.
This sounds like wildly incompetent malpractice then. Even if you're going to get 'routine' major surgery with general anaesthetic you should insist on a spinal block for pain. The anaesthetic blocks out frontal lobe consciousness and some memory formation, but other parts of the brain are going, "holy fuck, I'm being sawn in half!" which leads to major brain trauma and long-lasting problems. Ever know somebody who came out of surgery 'changed'?
Docs at Walter Reed have been on the forefront for a while, because screwed up soldiers are expensive. But regardless of their cost cutting motivations, this should be well known in anaesthesia by now...
... and I'll start tomorrow!
Except I'd tell the UN, with their grabby little paws, to get stuffed so probably I don't qualify. Oh, and the offices are moving from LA to Bermuda or Grand Cayman.
Oh, and I outsource registration for the new TLD's to existing registrars with good track records, so people don't need to use ICA clients to virtual machines with dubious availability to fill out forms.
OK, one more: I reduce the ICANN fees by 75%, but only after there's enough money to build a 50' monument to Jon Postel outside HQ.
to see that sort of attack played out a few years later
Impossible. These kinds of attacks were never anticipated. It was a failure of imagination.
Hyperbole much? Gee wiz
Oh, c'mon - now you're just pissing on AEI's latest little fear party.
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Think cable repair men
I'm going to avoid bashing the stereotype there, and just say that it's not all about improving service and customer satisfaction. I know some people who work in management at construction-industry companies, and they actually have a real problem with workers leaving the office in the morning and going on detours to run errands, stop off at the bar, even hit the arcade on the way to the job site. Or, leaving early in the afternoon, etc.
They have a real ethical problem when generating the bill for the client, if they're billing for hours when nobody was there. It's cheaper to eat the loss than to hire a foreman.
Spot checks help, somewhat. Sure, you could just fire all the less-than-honest workers, but then there are training costs, and the fact that those people will go work somwhere else, so it's just shifting the problem in societal terms.
It's sad to say, but some people just aren't honest, unless they're being held accountable. If we become what we do, something like this might even help train those sorts of people to be honest.
So you buy that he lost his voice and won't be at the quarterly earnings meeting - In late July?
I don't think Schmitt is lying - Page may very well have lost his voice. The question is what else has he lost? e.g. consciousness?
I can't believe people would be willing to do this.
Heck, if there was a smartphone that could last a few days on a charge (so I'd be interested in owning one) I'd probably use this to track myself.
Ever forget, even just once, to write down your hours at a remote site and not catch it until billing time later on? Good luck trying to bill for hours you can't accurately account for. Eating an entire day's worth of job revenue because of a clerical error really hurts. I once tried using a Tom Tom to do this sort of data logging, but it was buggy on some hardware (but worked on others).
For many reasons, I'd prefer employees to have a work phone and a personal phone. Something like this should only be on a work phone that gets turned off during non-work hours. But, it's been shown that being tracked reduces field workers screwing-off on company time and so these solutions pay for themselves. n.b. - I've got no problem with a worker stopping off at the pub for a long lunch, but at least be honest and 'clock out' if you're having beers with your buds.
I'm unclear - are you suggesting that Slashdotters should all be reading Hack-A-Day, know the Apple App Store inside and out, or that the information is time-sensitive enough to not be worth posting today?
Do they refuse to accept tax payments from any residents who are employed by any company with ties to the nuclear industry? Because that would be blood money, yanno?
Of course, now that you have (snapshot-)transactional semantics, you need transactional syntax. That means changes to POSIX.
OK
Woops.
POSIX 1 lasted about three years. POSIX 2 has lasted twenty.
If the choice really is rebooting *nix boxes to be able to handle package updates OR specifying POSIX 3, I doubt too many of the IEEE guys who worked on POSIX 2 are going to get their feelings bent out of shape. I'd imagine some of them would recoil in terror at the notion of rebooting a unix box to update Firefox.
But, I suspect that with Linux Containers, it's probably unnecessary. Perhaps we don't have support yet for being able to pin a version of a filesystem to a cgroup, but I haven't delved too deeply into it.
Btrfs performance is bad due to a lot of seeks. With a SSD and Facebook's Flashcache to cache your rotating clunkers it performs very nicely.
Don't apologize for bad performance. ZFS has a very similar feature set to BTRFS but it doesn't have all these problems. Maybe BTRFS just isn't ready yet - I wonder if the developers ever feel like they'd wish people stopped rushing it into production.
Anyway, I use SSD+Flashcache on some servers - it works great. But that shouldn't be the minimum system requirement for a Fedora machine.
That's good stuff. Linux distributions need to stay nimble and borrow liberally from other good ideas.
I experienced rollback upgrades with nexenta, and liked that quite a bit. ZFS >> BTRFS right now, though.
I'm using Puppet to describe a test cluster, and I absolutely love that (at least the ideas if not the expression necessarily). Functional declaration is absolutely the right way to do things. I've been wondering about how something like Puppet (if not Puppet) should become integral to Fedora. Yum, rpm, puppet - all essential pieces to the puzzle.
If none of the distributions evolve, a new one will spring up that implements these ideas and rapidly steal mindshare.
haha, I'm using that. :)
Um, no. Typical industrial rate (SoCal) 7 cents per kWh. Residential rate ~13 cent per kWh.
There are at least 4 rates: residential, commerical, industrial, and 3-phase.
I pay about 8 cents at home and 12 cents at the office building. The folks who do plasma cutting across town pay a much lower rate.
Residential may be subsidized by commerical, I dunno. Industrial would be a volume discount, and 3-phase is often billed by capacity, not usage.