If your ability to feel is also destroyed, doesn't much matter, does it?
Depends which parts of the brain are damaged. There's recent work done by US Army Medical showing that most of the brain experiences the trauma of surgery, for instance, even thought the frontal lobes are unconscious from the anesthesia. This leads to PTSD-like symptoms in many cases, so mere frontal lobe inactivity is insufficient to allay any fears of suffering.
Ah but you see, there's a difference between "killing someone" with with a bullet and simply refusing to take action, letting the body shut down without artificial interference.
Yet that body never would have gotten into that position without such interference. One you take action you're on a path of responsibility - removing feeding tubes not a reset of the situation, it's a direct action that may lead to suffering.
The person ends up just as dead, but the legal (and occasionally moral) implications are different.
Yeah, IMHO it's sad that suffering bordering on torture is legal but a quick painless death is illegal. I understand that in a combat situation, soldiers are not tried for murder if they end a dying soldier's life, and knowingly letting a dying man suffer horribly in that situation is considered inhumane.
if they don't like how we use the kernel, we're unlikely to be accepted upstream
I think we all know how this story ends - it's only a matter of how long it takes and how much it costs to get sync'ed back up with mainline.
Given that, the longer it takes the more it's going to cost everybody, so better to just get on with it now, and it's done when it's done (assuming you can offset future budget with current budget).
(aside: the problem isn't lifting restrictions on speech, it's the form corporations have taken since John D. Rockefeller lobbied Congress in the 1860's to change how corporations were permitted). Fix the cause, not the symptom.
Save them from what? I'm pretty sure living out the rest of your life unable to move, communicating only through blinks would be worse than the alternative.
Being dehydrated to death.
If you're going to kill someone, at least have the balls to put a bullet in their head.
someone had already changed the configuration password. I had to do a factory reset and beat the guy to the configuration screen when it powered up again.
Next time, use a wireless sniffer and find his MAC. Then find that MAC's physical location based on signal strength (he has to be close). Then beat the hell out of him and tell him that's what happens to punks who screw with your dad's IT.
I thought the SciFi network mini series a few years back was pretty faithful. I'd watch a new 3D big effects version, but it hardly seems necessary.
I liked the SciFi version too. Not the best dramatic work ever created, but enjoyable (and this from SciFi??!?) and the pacing was good.
How long was the mini-series? Dune just doesn't fit into a two or three hour movie. The 80's version just made me feel like I lad low blood sugar the whole time I was watching it. Even the marketing blitz ahead of it (I recall a many-page spread in 3-2-1-Contact magazine at the time, which didn't do much of anything commercial) couldn't convince us that it was a good movie (though some people saw the movie they wanted to see). I understand, it took me a few viewings to convince myself that The Phantom Menace was complete horseshit.
One thing is for sure; when I have kids of my own, I'm teaching them how to defend themselves
Teach them martial arts, any form with reasonable defensive training.
Bullies love to have power over people. I happened to be trained in Tae Kwon Do at an early age, and when a kid decided to try to bully me, I gave his verbal shit right back to him, and so he attacked. And quickly landed face-first on the ground. And again. And again. And then he gave up on that idea for good.
Anybody can go berserker on a kid and smash on him, but subtle defensive maneuvers are far more satisfying and very unlikely to land the defender in trouble (insane school administrators being the wildcard here).
Were they born PHP coders and can't learn??? Is a language like a race, encoded in you DNA?
Can they be retrained? Sure, likely, even if they have to learn some CS to jump from PHP to C++. Is it in Facebook's best interest to have non-productive coders for a couple years (it takes about that long to get really good at C++)? No, otherwise they would have have done that.
Also, PHP coders probably come cheaper on the market than C+ coders.
For all the trouble you're going through to convert PHP into C++ (300,000 lines and 5,000 unit tests), wouldn't programming in C++ in the first place be easier?
They address this specifically in one of the articles. They want their whole team (many of whom are not C++ developers) to contribute.
Even if it were only half of one percent, that's still 150 machines to Facebook. I understand they put a patch up for memcache that "only" reduced their need for 60 machines (some synchronous lock got made async IIRC).
He means, "please don't spam the Bugzilla comments unless you have something constructive to add." BMO used to block all slashdot referers at one point...
The FAA needs proof, or are you going to argue that because one group of people might have done right without the FAA requiring proof, the FAA should just let anyone do it whether they've put any thought into these effects or not?
Nobody said 'just anyone'. What makes you think this crew didn't have any experience dropping cars - you've seen the movie, right?
Stunt people play everything by the book. They don't take chances - that's a good way to get dead in their field. They check, double check, and then check a few more times for good measure if something potentially dangerous is in play. If they said they could drop a car, odds are very high they knew what they were talking about. And the experiment proved them right.
The FAA has no experience here, and they were asking experts to prove that they weren't wrong. Not that they probably didn't enjoy dropping 4 cars, but doing it at the salt flats was a stupid experiment - Chicago is far more windy and has upcurrents you won't find in the middle of a salt flat.
an Afghani mule for example will need a mule skinner than can speak the mule's native language
What, how many commands do mules typically know? One of those keychain voice recorders ought to do if the soldiers really can't remember a half dozen or so new words (which I suppose they can).
When they made the Blues Brothers movie they had to do tests to get FAA approval to drop the Nazi's Pinto from a helicopter in Chicago in that one scene; they wanted to make sure it would drop straight down instead of sailing into a residential neighborhood. After dropping three pintos in the Salt Flats in Utah, the FAA granted permission.
Your assumption appears to be that the Blues Brothers fx team never thought about wind or aerodynamic effects, rather than they were competent and confident and the FAA just made them jump through a bunch of bureaucratic hoops to arrive at what people in the industry already knew. So, they didn't actually protect anybody in that case (either way).
For me the problem isn't the $150 but the 64GB. I'd probably be willing to spend up to $200 for a reasonable SSD for my netbook (which has a hard drive) but I probably won't buy one until it's closer to a dollar a gig, so I can get the space I need to actually do stuff. Performance is nice, but if it's 2-3x faster (real-world), it's worth 2-3x more, not 10x more (current laptop drive to SSD price ratio @160GB @Newegg). That's speaking as someone for whom speed is nice and useful, but not critical.
That's OK, though, that's only a couple more cycles, 2-3 years out, and by then the firmware should be pretty solid too.
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If your ability to feel is also destroyed, doesn't much matter, does it?
Depends which parts of the brain are damaged. There's recent work done by US Army Medical showing that most of the brain experiences the trauma of surgery, for instance, even thought the frontal lobes are unconscious from the anesthesia. This leads to PTSD-like symptoms in many cases, so mere frontal lobe inactivity is insufficient to allay any fears of suffering.
Ah but you see, there's a difference between "killing someone" with with a bullet and simply refusing to take action, letting the body shut down without artificial interference.
Yet that body never would have gotten into that position without such interference. One you take action you're on a path of responsibility - removing feeding tubes not a reset of the situation, it's a direct action that may lead to suffering.
The person ends up just as dead, but the legal (and occasionally moral) implications are different.
Yeah, IMHO it's sad that suffering bordering on torture is legal but a quick painless death is illegal. I understand that in a combat situation, soldiers are not tried for murder if they end a dying soldier's life, and knowingly letting a dying man suffer horribly in that situation is considered inhumane.
if they don't like how we use the kernel, we're unlikely to be accepted upstream
I think we all know how this story ends - it's only a matter of how long it takes and how much it costs to get sync'ed back up with mainline.
Given that, the longer it takes the more it's going to cost everybody, so better to just get on with it now, and it's done when it's done (assuming you can offset future budget with current budget).
5 year olds can't run for office. FAIL.
(aside: the problem isn't lifting restrictions on speech, it's the form corporations have taken since John D. Rockefeller lobbied Congress in the 1860's to change how corporations were permitted). Fix the cause, not the symptom.
And what would they probably say? "Kill me...."
That would be tremendously useful information.
So all they have to do is live in an MRI machine for the rest of their lives and they can communicate. Problem solved!
This problem can likely be expressed in terms of Moore's Law generations.
(and yes, I know it's not transistor count, but the parallel research)
Save them from what? I'm pretty sure living out the rest of your life unable to move, communicating only through blinks would be worse than the alternative.
Being dehydrated to death.
If you're going to kill someone, at least have the balls to put a bullet in their head.
Look, the guy's at Harvard, so it's more likely that it's a play on the MBTA Subway Map than a London Tube Map.
someone had already changed the configuration password. I had to do a factory reset and beat the guy to the configuration screen when it powered up again.
Next time, use a wireless sniffer and find his MAC. Then find that MAC's physical location based on signal strength (he has to be close). Then beat the hell out of him and tell him that's what happens to punks who screw with your dad's IT.
It kind of takes on a whole other meaning, doesn't it?
I thought the SciFi network mini series a few years back was pretty faithful. I'd watch a new 3D big effects version, but it hardly seems necessary.
I liked the SciFi version too. Not the best dramatic work ever created, but enjoyable (and this from SciFi??!?) and the pacing was good.
How long was the mini-series? Dune just doesn't fit into a two or three hour movie. The 80's version just made me feel like I lad low blood sugar the whole time I was watching it. Even the marketing blitz ahead of it (I recall a many-page spread in 3-2-1-Contact magazine at the time, which didn't do much of anything commercial) couldn't convince us that it was a good movie (though some people saw the movie they wanted to see). I understand, it took me a few viewings to convince myself that The Phantom Menace was complete horseshit.
What does the Bank of Montreal have against Slashdot?
"context clues" they call them...
One thing is for sure; when I have kids of my own, I'm teaching them how to defend themselves
Teach them martial arts, any form with reasonable defensive training.
Bullies love to have power over people. I happened to be trained in Tae Kwon Do at an early age, and when a kid decided to try to bully me, I gave his verbal shit right back to him, and so he attacked. And quickly landed face-first on the ground. And again. And again. And then he gave up on that idea for good.
Anybody can go berserker on a kid and smash on him, but subtle defensive maneuvers are far more satisfying and very unlikely to land the defender in trouble (insane school administrators being the wildcard here).
Besides, it's good for their character.
Were they born PHP coders and can't learn??? Is a language like a race, encoded in you DNA?
Can they be retrained? Sure, likely, even if they have to learn some CS to jump from PHP to C++. Is it in Facebook's best interest to have non-productive coders for a couple years (it takes about that long to get really good at C++)? No, otherwise they would have have done that.
Also, PHP coders probably come cheaper on the market than C+ coders.
the php haters: "look how awful php is, you need to convert everything into c++ before you can use it in really large scale deployments!"
"Look how awful C++ is, you have write bits in assembly to get it to really run."
"Look how awful assembly is, you really optimize when you can write machine opcodes."
And the microcode guys just glare out from their caves with their glowy little eyes in incredulity.
Elsewhere is heard, "You guys still use CPU's? It's the GPU decade, dude."
And somebody down the hall builds an ASIC to solve a specific problem and thinks he's so smart.
But, the analog EE understands his elegant circuit doesn't enable a team of 200 developers to build the top social networking site.
For all the trouble you're going through to convert PHP into C++ (300,000 lines and 5,000 unit tests), wouldn't programming in C++ in the first place be easier?
They address this specifically in one of the articles. They want their whole team (many of whom are not C++ developers) to contribute.
Yeah, the article would help you there.
Even if it were only half of one percent, that's still 150 machines to Facebook. I understand they put a patch up for memcache that "only" reduced their need for 60 machines (some synchronous lock got made async IIRC).
It clearly could have sailed off and hit an occupied building
Didn't the test they required clearly show that this wasn't possible?
He means, "please don't spam the Bugzilla comments unless you have something constructive to add." BMO used to block all slashdot referers at one point...
The FAA needs proof, or are you going to argue that because one group of people might have done right without the FAA requiring proof, the FAA should just let anyone do it whether they've put any thought into these effects or not?
Nobody said 'just anyone'. What makes you think this crew didn't have any experience dropping cars - you've seen the movie, right?
Stunt people play everything by the book. They don't take chances - that's a good way to get dead in their field. They check, double check, and then check a few more times for good measure if something potentially dangerous is in play. If they said they could drop a car, odds are very high they knew what they were talking about. And the experiment proved them right.
The FAA has no experience here, and they were asking experts to prove that they weren't wrong. Not that they probably didn't enjoy dropping 4 cars, but doing it at the salt flats was a stupid experiment - Chicago is far more windy and has upcurrents you won't find in the middle of a salt flat.
How many cargo ships do you suppose sail into the United States from North Korea or Iran?
There's no need for the cargo ship to leave from one of those countries, only for them to get a cargo container aboard one - somewhere, anywhere.
protecting our cities from madmen in Tehran or Pyongyang is a worthwhile investment
Why wouldn't they just bring it into a harbor on a sailboat, or on a cargo container, or ship it UPS?
If we're going to try to stop the threats, we should stop the cheap threats first.
But if those prove impossible to stop, should we then assume that expensive threats will be used instead of cheap threats?
Somewhere along the lines the subject line of this threat was 'money', and that seems like the right factor to consider.
an Afghani mule for example will need a mule skinner than can speak the mule's native language
What, how many commands do mules typically know? One of those keychain voice recorders ought to do if the soldiers really can't remember a half dozen or so new words (which I suppose they can).
When they made the Blues Brothers movie they had to do tests to get FAA approval to drop the Nazi's Pinto from a helicopter in Chicago in that one scene; they wanted to make sure it would drop straight down instead of sailing into a residential neighborhood. After dropping three pintos in the Salt Flats in Utah, the FAA granted permission.
Your assumption appears to be that the Blues Brothers fx team never thought about wind or aerodynamic effects, rather than they were competent and confident and the FAA just made them jump through a bunch of bureaucratic hoops to arrive at what people in the industry already knew. So, they didn't actually protect anybody in that case (either way).
150 dollars for a 64 GB SSD is fine
For me the problem isn't the $150 but the 64GB. I'd probably be willing to spend up to $200 for a reasonable SSD for my netbook (which has a hard drive) but I probably won't buy one until it's closer to a dollar a gig, so I can get the space I need to actually do stuff. Performance is nice, but if it's 2-3x faster (real-world), it's worth 2-3x more, not 10x more (current laptop drive to SSD price ratio @160GB @Newegg). That's speaking as someone for whom speed is nice and useful, but not critical.
That's OK, though, that's only a couple more cycles, 2-3 years out, and by then the firmware should be pretty solid too.
haha, way to edit cohesively there..... you hit 'Print Screen' of course (unless you've got odd remappings like this machine... sigh).