Send old people - it'll take of our health care and Social Security problems and it give them something to do; like yelling at Martian youths to get off their red rock "lawns".
Not to mention the.6G gravity, general wisdom and patience (some screening required).
This isn't too hard. Assume that everything is crap and everybody selling something is lying to you.
Let the burden of proof rest upon reputations proving otherwise. There are writers/organizations who work hard to achieve such reputations, so take advantage of their labor. Incrementally learn to trust sources or gain that trust from other people whom you trust who have identified those sources (old friends are good to have).
Teach your children not to believe strangers trying to sell them something, no matter if they're standing on a soap box or speaking from an electronic box in the house. 'Voices of authority' that are self-interested are nearly always wrong.
, but considering how ignorant or misinformed people are on scientific issues, it would in fact be a bad idea to let the general public best decide on issues like this.
When there are issues like this, it's a great sign that the government is sticking its nose in issues where it doesn't belong. For instance, most people can comprehend the assigned roles of government as described in the US Constitution.
Non-governmental groups are where the real science experts are.
I read the summary, the article, and a few pages on the website. They all talk about features, but no description of what the thing actually is, except that it's written in Python. I recognize most of the words there, and they have a block diagram with nebulous terms.
I'm sitting in my recently deceased grandfather's nearly vacant apartment, currently zero'ing out his hard drive after spending about 12 hours copying files from ZIP disks, CD's, random directories on his Windows machines, etc. Forwarding the e-mail account, setting an auto-reply, unsubscribing from dozens of 'virtual offers', etc., dumping his Firefox saved passwords (banking, etc.).
The things that make it the most painful are the age of the equipment (p4, IDE, slow USB) and that stuff is everywhere. He was a professional photographer, and collecting the first 60 years of his work was a matter of filling a box with negatives; the last 15 is taking almost a day. Computers open options, but don't make everything easier.
The best part is that he wrote his passwords on masking tape on his monitor. Appropriate choice, given his risk profile.
Too lazy to read the story, but I have Dark Side of the Moon on mp3. I got them from Amazon when they were running their Pepsi Points promotion a few years back. Took me a couple months, but I was killing myself (and my bank account) with Diet Pepsi at the time, so every week or so I got a free download and this was the album I chose. In retrospect I should have bought it on CD years ago, but hey, they got a customer.
Anyway, they just break the tracks where the CD does. Set your playback device for gapless and it works as expected.
Whilst there are many things to admire about the US, the idea that I have to use vacation time to have a medical procedure and recovery time is just offensive.
You can buy short-term disability insurance if you don't like that. Or you can keep that money in your salary if you chose. What's wrong with choice?
If they can go as far as searching my car because I'm parked in a suspicious place without arresting me
That shouldn't hold up, they need specific and articulable cause. Of course, you can probably win a court challenge, but what are their consequences for violating your rights? Per two recent Supreme Court decisions, if you want to avoid this where you live now, build a fence. My new driveway will be fenced.
Per your story, I suspect the answer to why they didn't raid the house is 'civil forfeiture'. Look it up on the Institute for Justice's website if you're not familiar with the problem. If they seize drug money coming out of the house they can keep it and buy police toys with it. If they close down the drug house, their revenue stream dries up. Sounds like you got caught in a milking machine.
Sort of, a starting nurse will make more than a doctor until they are out of residency
Yeah, but that's still really grad-school with stipend. We've had friends with kids in that boat, no longer drawing on loans.
Nurses' salaries will probably come down more, especially if doctors' salaries do.
Interesting point. I can see the other side as well, but it may well be.
But that's not even taking into account if you go into a low paying field like general practice which demand is high for, but the salary of 90K to 160K just isn't enough to pay off 250K in debt before even looking at a mortgage.
Eh, depends on lifestyle choices. I've lived just fine on $40K net-salary with 2 kids. Not joyousness, but at the low end of that range, a doctor can pay off his debt in 6-7 years. And $90K is an underserved-area-payback salary; around here most family docs do about $140-160, and we're not "big city". I know a doc in the area who started 30 years ago at $86K. Our local cost-of-living adjustment is figured at -10% by SSA.
SIMMs had that horrible push-sideways thing where they looked installed but weren't
Yeah, I only ever upgraded one PC with DIP's (a young'in they call me). These were SIMM's, and despite the tilt-n-click nature, these old ladies all got 'Happy Mac's. Frankly, the pressure needed to put the DIMM's in some machines might be the biggest hurdle. Some of my Apple laptops have had SO-DIMM modules with tilt-n-click insertions. Not so bad for people who are expected to navigate Interstates and live.
I used to have a job that included helping computer-illiterate old ladies upgrade the RAM on their MacSE's over the phone. Those were some long calls. I think we sent out the Torx drivers and Mac crackers with the RAM. "Now, ma'am, don't touch that [description of flyback transformer] or you might die." None ever gave up and all were successful. I think at the time computer users were a self-selected hardened population.
I was concerned when I read the sensationalist headline, but they can only search your phone after you've been arrested. Not really much difference between a phone and a wallet, except for amount of data.
'arrested' isn't a bright enough line. If you're caught climbing out of a jewelry store window and the cops want to search your bag, fair enough. If you're arrested for jaywalking and the cops want to search your briefcase, 4th Amendment flag down.
I'm convinced that they come up with the acronym first and then backronym it into a phrase. The military acronyms usually have names that an 8-year old would think are pretty cool for some GI Joe toys.
The thing I still wonder about, though, is whether they first pick the acronym, then pick the phrase, then invent a need and a project to fit the phrase.
I'd like to believe that, but college tuition suggests otherwise.
Another nasty 3-rd party payer problem.
But you have a good point. Currently, I don't think it matters what medical school costs - any MD's are going to pay it all back pretty easily.
Nursing schools, though are much less costly - about $15K on top of college, IIRC. They couldn't function if they were charging $100K because the pay for nurses is so much lower.
I think 5) takes care of that - if you double the number of medicals schools, the prices should go down (until demand rises to fill capacity again, anyway).
Still think revoking the "Other OS" function was a good idea?
Imagine you're on the PS team and your PS4 work has been back-burnered. You realize there's only one thing that can get enough attention to move it back into production. You're also in charge of the PS3 update process.
I do trust Gmail to have better data integrity because they are more open about their architecture and having read about it, I think it's well designed. I don't have any expectation of them caring about my email apart from its data-mining value though.
But you seen, it's because they have value in mining it that they're likely to keep it safe. You and Google are in the same boat.
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Send old people - it'll take of our health care and Social Security problems and it give them something to do; like yelling at Martian youths to get off their red rock "lawns".
Not to mention the .6G gravity, general wisdom and patience (some screening required).
Expensive chocolates are like that. Junk-grade chocolate (technical term - really) doesn't sell well without being wrapped in shiny colors.
I remember some clear sodas in the early 90's. I bough them, I guess most didn't.
It started when the communist party USA attempted to overthrow the US government and install a Mussolini type dictator between WWI and WWII.
FDR implemented more planks of the Communist Manifesto than most communists could have hoped for.
This isn't too hard. Assume that everything is crap and everybody selling something is lying to you.
Let the burden of proof rest upon reputations proving otherwise. There are writers/organizations who work hard to achieve such reputations, so take advantage of their labor. Incrementally learn to trust sources or gain that trust from other people whom you trust who have identified those sources (old friends are good to have).
Teach your children not to believe strangers trying to sell them something, no matter if they're standing on a soap box or speaking from an electronic box in the house. 'Voices of authority' that are self-interested are nearly always wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochineal_dye
, but considering how ignorant or misinformed people are on scientific issues, it would in fact be a bad idea to let the general public best decide on issues like this.
When there are issues like this, it's a great sign that the government is sticking its nose in issues where it doesn't belong. For instance, most people can comprehend the assigned roles of government as described in the US Constitution.
Non-governmental groups are where the real science experts are.
I tried to get a business going that does this in the 90s. Unfortunately I was the one guy who couldn't get VC funding in the 90s.
Funny, me too. Except I realized that the government would want to use it to crush anonymity online, so I scuttled the ship. Fast forward 12 years...
I read the summary, the article, and a few pages on the website. They all talk about features, but no description of what the thing actually is, except that it's written in Python. I recognize most of the words there, and they have a block diagram with nebulous terms.
So, does anybody actually know what this is?
I'm sitting in my recently deceased grandfather's nearly vacant apartment, currently zero'ing out his hard drive after spending about 12 hours copying files from ZIP disks, CD's, random directories on his Windows machines, etc. Forwarding the e-mail account, setting an auto-reply, unsubscribing from dozens of 'virtual offers', etc., dumping his Firefox saved passwords (banking, etc.).
The things that make it the most painful are the age of the equipment (p4, IDE, slow USB) and that stuff is everywhere. He was a professional photographer, and collecting the first 60 years of his work was a matter of filling a box with negatives; the last 15 is taking almost a day. Computers open options, but don't make everything easier.
The best part is that he wrote his passwords on masking tape on his monitor. Appropriate choice, given his risk profile.
Don't anthropomorphize DRAM devices - they hate that.
Who is writing this stuff and what is their motive???
Somebody with a competing interest who's well-versed in spreading FUD.
Frankly, I can't imagine who it could be.
Too lazy to read the story, but I have Dark Side of the Moon on mp3. I got them from Amazon when they were running their Pepsi Points promotion a few years back. Took me a couple months, but I was killing myself (and my bank account) with Diet Pepsi at the time, so every week or so I got a free download and this was the album I chose. In retrospect I should have bought it on CD years ago, but hey, they got a customer.
Anyway, they just break the tracks where the CD does. Set your playback device for gapless and it works as expected.
Whilst there are many things to admire about the US, the idea that I have to use vacation time to have a medical procedure and recovery time is just offensive.
You can buy short-term disability insurance if you don't like that. Or you can keep that money in your salary if you chose. What's wrong with choice?
If they can go as far as searching my car because I'm parked in a suspicious place without arresting me
That shouldn't hold up, they need specific and articulable cause. Of course, you can probably win a court challenge, but what are their consequences for violating your rights? Per two recent Supreme Court decisions, if you want to avoid this where you live now, build a fence. My new driveway will be fenced.
Per your story, I suspect the answer to why they didn't raid the house is 'civil forfeiture'. Look it up on the Institute for Justice's website if you're not familiar with the problem. If they seize drug money coming out of the house they can keep it and buy police toys with it. If they close down the drug house, their revenue stream dries up. Sounds like you got caught in a milking machine.
Sort of, a starting nurse will make more than a doctor until they are out of residency
Yeah, but that's still really grad-school with stipend. We've had friends with kids in that boat, no longer drawing on loans.
Nurses' salaries will probably come down more, especially if doctors' salaries do.
Interesting point. I can see the other side as well, but it may well be.
But that's not even taking into account if you go into a low paying field like general practice which demand is high for, but the salary of 90K to 160K just isn't enough to pay off 250K in debt before even looking at a mortgage.
Eh, depends on lifestyle choices. I've lived just fine on $40K net-salary with 2 kids. Not joyousness, but at the low end of that range, a doctor can pay off his debt in 6-7 years. And $90K is an underserved-area-payback salary; around here most family docs do about $140-160, and we're not "big city". I know a doc in the area who started 30 years ago at $86K. Our local cost-of-living adjustment is figured at -10% by SSA.
SIMMs had that horrible push-sideways thing where they looked installed but weren't
Yeah, I only ever upgraded one PC with DIP's (a young'in they call me). These were SIMM's, and despite the tilt-n-click nature, these old ladies all got 'Happy Mac's. Frankly, the pressure needed to put the DIMM's in some machines might be the biggest hurdle. Some of my Apple laptops have had SO-DIMM modules with tilt-n-click insertions. Not so bad for people who are expected to navigate Interstates and live.
...and apparently I'm doing it wrong. I'll have to show my wife this paper.
If y'all see this as my last Slashdot post ever, you'll know why.
(but to be half-serious, I have the 'alcohol tastes bad' gene; this may not be all cultural)
I used to have a job that included helping computer-illiterate old ladies upgrade the RAM on their MacSE's over the phone. Those were some long calls. I think we sent out the Torx drivers and Mac crackers with the RAM. "Now, ma'am, don't touch that [description of flyback transformer] or you might die." None ever gave up and all were successful. I think at the time computer users were a self-selected hardened population.
Airships and giant indoor waterparks are both way cool.
I was concerned when I read the sensationalist headline, but they can only search your phone after you've been arrested. Not really much difference between a phone and a wallet, except for amount of data.
'arrested' isn't a bright enough line. If you're caught climbing out of a jewelry store window and the cops want to search your bag, fair enough. If you're arrested for jaywalking and the cops want to search your briefcase, 4th Amendment flag down.
I'm convinced that they come up with the acronym first and then backronym it into a phrase. The military acronyms usually have names that an 8-year old would think are pretty cool for some GI Joe toys.
The thing I still wonder about, though, is whether they first pick the acronym, then pick the phrase, then invent a need and a project to fit the phrase.
I'd like to believe that, but college tuition suggests otherwise.
Another nasty 3-rd party payer problem.
But you have a good point. Currently, I don't think it matters what medical school costs - any MD's are going to pay it all back pretty easily.
Nursing schools, though are much less costly - about $15K on top of college, IIRC. They couldn't function if they were charging $100K because the pay for nurses is so much lower.
I think 5) takes care of that - if you double the number of medicals schools, the prices should go down (until demand rises to fill capacity again, anyway).
Still think revoking the "Other OS" function was a good idea?
Imagine you're on the PS team and your PS4 work has been back-burnered. You realize there's only one thing that can get enough attention to move it back into production. You're also in charge of the PS3 update process.
I do trust Gmail to have better data integrity because they are more open about their architecture and having read about it, I think it's well designed.
I don't have any expectation of them caring about my email apart from its data-mining value though.
But you seen, it's because they have value in mining it that they're likely to keep it safe. You and Google are in the same boat.