Oh boy! Instead of a flying window of its me too windowing environment, it's the me too of the giant smartphone tiny touchscreen square buttons paradigm transparently the future of the giant multimonitor desktop!
The comments at TFA point out how you know you're old when your common knowledge is someone else's hacker archaeological project.
Isaac Asimov's prediction in Foundation may prove true -- in there scientists (at least 30 kiloyears in the future) argue about the validiy of the "millenial depth" theory, that you only needed to delve into the past 1000 years of history or science papers, and that if it wasn't talked about there, it wouldn't be any further back.
As to the hidden malware issue, read the prologue of Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep. It's readable on Amazon (except page 4 for some odd reason). There's some, literally, galactic-class malware hidden in static data.
1. Congress, and the US, have an interest in not clogging courts. If you have an issue with the law, talk to your Congresscritter.
2. eBay does something it doesn't have to -- lets you opt out.
3. It is also a legitimate concern that businesses may create a business model around lots of low-value but improper charges. Even if every one goes against them in arbitration, their business model may account for that in making it worth it. for the remaining masses of uncontested charges. Again, talk to your congresscritter.
Go up to the guy following you, "Hi. My IQ is about eight billion. I couldn't help but notice someone used a raygun back there. Whether you have invented this or are trying to reverse alien technology, I want in. Go tell your bosses. Off you go now. I'll wait."
Ahhh, original Lemmings. Was proud I finished all 120 levels without looking up solutions.
Actually, finished 121 levels if you count figuring out how to hack the binary startup file that limited demo startups to 10 starts. Made the "You impressed us by finishing all 120 levels!!" screen all the sweeter.
Had I known they were from Liverpool, land with avowed, literal communists on the city council, I wouldn't have let the guilt rot my gut all these decades. QQ me.
> "as well as more-obscure Torx screws to prevent intruders from > opening the lock's case and removing the plug"
Because nobody capable and determined enough to rig up the electronic interface for $50 can handle the mental and financial stresses of a $10 Torx set from the hardware store.
I recommend leaving it alone. Cutting out "snake oil" is not much of an issue with professional medicine anymore.
We need to run experiments to see if delays due to full prove-outs cost more lives than does rapid development with the occasional oops.
Literally, not figuratively, billions of lives may depend on it as advancement rates deviate from where they otherwise would be over the decades, going on centuries now.
If Mexico got rid of their kickback-oriented kleptocracy so the path to wealth was no longer being a government official, and their economy became closer to the US's, they would save a hell of a lot more lives and extend longevity a hell of a lot more than free health care in an ongoing broken, almost-failed state will.
Stated brutally, Mexico, as-is, plus UHC evil US in terms of actual saving of lives. They focus on a lifesaving triviality when the biggest factor by far remains unchanged -- third world kleptocracy.
Here's a statement I read that will get me downmodded because it burns your ears because it's true: You can't give out things for free until other, better nations invent them for you.
This is an idiotic, hunter-gatherer attitude that sees treatments that already exist and takes them from the farmers who produce them.
If you actually cared, you would at least craft universal care laws (and general laws) that didn't kick the producers in the balls on a daily basis.
Mexican, and world health , would benefit immeasurably more from Mexico getting rid of its kleptocracy where government jobs are the place to be for kickback wealth.
Then their economy wouldn't be so bad and they could contribute better to worldwide invention rates, whch are what saves the most lives in the long run.
Government-provided health care relies on the idea of handing out what already exists. As such it is a static analysis that is pennywise, pound foolish in ignoring the real lifesaving force: new treatments.
It is the exact same power as continuously-compounded interest. Socialized medicine is giving a man a few thousand dollars.
Freeing business from predation is the millions you have in thebank by socking a little away every week. I'd rather have 2055-level medical tech in 2050 thanks to industrious, free Mexico, than 2050-level tech and not free, kleptocracy-wise, Mexico.
From TFA, here are their three examples of laws that are threatened:
1. Giant warning or generic packaging on cigarettes. 2. Requirements of labeling on genetically-modified food. 3. Laws requiring things like Canada's supply management system which "preserves farmer's livelihood."
The first, should it even come to pass, would just be reversing even more pointless government mandate. If cigarettes are that bad, make them illegal.
The second is rolling back unscientific scare tactics that certain political parties unscientifically make hay over.
The third is also rolling back laws that force some people to remain beholden to some of their inefficient fellow citizens.
There may be reasons to oppose the de facto creation of yet another layer of bureaucracy, which will enorably grow, competing for dominance, but those reasons largely revolve arpund preventng much of wjat people with this party's sensibilities want, "Me and my buddies being the deciders who permit things."
> If our competitors copy us, it is impossible for us to continue moving forward
Fair enough, but that's a patent issue, not a copyright issue. When you try to copyright functionality, you're doing a patent, and it should not be copyrightable.
Exact Apple look, e.g. lines in a window drag bar, Ok (but that mght be better served as a trademark or something.)
Worked on some of the first Microsoft-based car nav radios, a Windows-CE based auto-specific system. MS was in the mode of "Hey, 3rd party apps are a feature!" and the auto companies were like, "Not gonna happen."
Not in the land of Congressional hearings and $100 million recalls. You think Facebook dodging the class action suit in that other thread is a big deal, imagine a lawyer trotting broken or dead bodies before the camera because one of the Big Three didn't properly vette Angry Birds: Cruisin' Down the Highway.
It's not about privacy. This isn't like Facebook lied about a product which was killing people. It's smarmy lawyers seeing a company making a mistake and getting erections at the fabulous wealth it will bring them by using a system built by lawyers for lawyers to enrich themselves acting as the functional equivalent of parasites on a host body.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh boy! Instead of a flying window of its me too windowing environment, it's the me too of the giant smartphone tiny touchscreen square buttons paradigm transparently the future of the giant multimonitor desktop!
The comments at TFA point out how you know you're old when your common knowledge is someone else's hacker archaeological project.
Isaac Asimov's prediction in Foundation may prove true -- in there scientists (at least 30 kiloyears in the future) argue about the validiy of the "millenial depth" theory, that you only needed to delve into the past 1000 years of history or science papers, and that if it wasn't talked about there, it wouldn't be any further back.
As to the hidden malware issue, read the prologue of Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep. It's readable on Amazon (except page 4 for some odd reason). There's some, literally, galactic-class malware hidden in static data.
1. Congress, and the US, have an interest in not clogging courts. If you have an issue with the law, talk to your Congresscritter.
2. eBay does something it doesn't have to -- lets you opt out.
3. It is also a legitimate concern that businesses may create a business model around lots of low-value but improper charges. Even if every one goes against them in arbitration, their business model may account for that in making it worth it. for the remaining masses of uncontested charges. Again, talk to your congresscritter.
> ...works really well until .mil shows up [at your jammer]
By that time half a dozen planes have crashed. 9/11 was a can-happen-only-once event, too.
I'm sure they secured the back panel with the more obscure Torx screws, too.
Go up to the guy following you, "Hi. My IQ is about eight billion. I couldn't help but notice someone used a raygun back there. Whether you have invented this or are trying to reverse alien technology, I want in. Go tell your bosses. Off you go now. I'll wait."
Ahhh, original Lemmings. Was proud I finished all 120 levels without looking up solutions.
Actually, finished 121 levels if you count figuring out how to hack the binary startup file that limited demo startups to 10 starts. Made the "You impressed us by finishing all 120 levels!!" screen all the sweeter.
Had I known they were from Liverpool, land with avowed, literal communists on the city council, I wouldn't have let the guilt rot my gut all these decades. QQ me.
> A robot that can reproduce the dexterity of the human hand
"No. We are not adding that as a UML use case."
> AT&T chief privacy officer Bob Quinn sneered at criticisms
"On retrospect, I probably should have turned off face chat before doing that."
Over millions of years, sure. It takes a little while to dissipate.
> "as well as more-obscure Torx screws to prevent intruders from
> opening the lock's case and removing the plug"
Because nobody capable and determined enough to rig up the electronic interface for $50 can handle the mental and financial stresses of a $10 Torx set from the hardware store.
"Well, we got the device. Open it up."
"Whoa! What kind of screws are these?"
"Lemme look -- MY GOD, IT'S FULL OF STARS!"
Still a long way from watching someone screaming as their head is sawn off, or watching someone blow a four year old.
Goatse or even bad accidents are the trivial warm up.
I recommend leaving it alone. Cutting out "snake oil" is not much of an issue with professional medicine anymore.
We need to run experiments to see if delays due to full prove-outs cost more lives than does rapid development with the occasional oops.
Literally, not figuratively, billions of lives may depend on it as advancement rates deviate from where they otherwise would be over the decades, going on centuries now.
He looked out the porthole at the new telescope whose gathering disc dwarfed his ship.
"That's one big-ass mirror!", Tom Swift reflected.
Mexico + UHC (double-less than) evil US, tx Slashdot autoformatter.
I't put a smiley face but I'm afraid of crashing their servers.
If Mexico got rid of their kickback-oriented kleptocracy so the path to wealth was no longer being a government official, and their economy became closer to the US's, they would save a hell of a lot more lives and extend longevity a hell of a lot more than free health care in an ongoing broken, almost-failed state will.
Stated brutally, Mexico, as-is, plus UHC evil US in terms of actual saving of lives. They focus on a lifesaving triviality when the biggest factor by far remains unchanged -- third world kleptocracy.
Here's a statement I read that will get me downmodded because it burns your ears because it's true: You can't give out things for free until other, better nations invent them for you.
This is an idiotic, hunter-gatherer attitude that sees treatments that already exist and takes them from the farmers who produce them.
If you actually cared, you would at least craft universal care laws (and general laws) that didn't kick the producers in the balls on a daily basis.
Mexican, and world health , would benefit immeasurably more from Mexico getting rid of its kleptocracy where government jobs are the place to be for kickback wealth.
Then their economy wouldn't be so bad and they could contribute better to worldwide invention rates, whch are what saves the most lives in the long run.
Government-provided health care relies on the idea of handing out what already exists. As such it is a static analysis that is pennywise, pound foolish in ignoring the real lifesaving force: new treatments.
It is the exact same power as continuously-compounded interest. Socialized medicine is giving a man a few thousand dollars.
Freeing business from predation is the millions you have in thebank by socking a little away every week. I'd rather have 2055-level medical tech in 2050 thanks to industrious, free Mexico, than 2050-level tech and not free, kleptocracy-wise, Mexico.
From TFA, here are their three examples of laws that are threatened:
1. Giant warning or generic packaging on cigarettes.
2. Requirements of labeling on genetically-modified food.
3. Laws requiring things like Canada's supply management system which "preserves farmer's livelihood."
The first, should it even come to pass, would just be reversing even more pointless government mandate. If cigarettes are that bad, make them illegal.
The second is rolling back unscientific scare tactics that certain political parties unscientifically make hay over.
The third is also rolling back laws that force some people to remain beholden to some of their inefficient fellow citizens.
There may be reasons to oppose the de facto creation of yet another layer of bureaucracy, which will enorably grow, competing for dominance, but those reasons largely revolve arpund preventng much of wjat people with this party's sensibilities want, "Me and my buddies being the deciders who permit things."
This is a non-issue.
"Fair enough. We won't link to these sites."
Next government idiocy to deal with?
This would require them to do so. It's a running battle but spam can be caught and flagged easily enough.
> If our competitors copy us, it is impossible for us to continue moving forward
Fair enough, but that's a patent issue, not a copyright issue. When you try to copyright functionality, you're doing a patent, and it should not be copyrightable.
Exact Apple look, e.g. lines in a window drag bar, Ok (but that mght be better served as a trademark or something.)
Worked on some of the first Microsoft-based car nav radios, a Windows-CE based auto-specific system. MS was in the mode of "Hey, 3rd party apps are a feature!" and the auto companies were like, "Not gonna happen."
Not in the land of Congressional hearings and $100 million recalls. You think Facebook dodging the class action suit in that other thread is a big deal, imagine a lawyer trotting broken or dead bodies before the camera because one of the Big Three didn't properly vette Angry Birds: Cruisin' Down the Highway.
Viruses and malware are just a matter of time.
> and may hold promise for helping address humanity's food crisis
It's aphids! Soylent green is made out of aphids!
It's not about privacy. This isn't like Facebook lied about a product which was killing people. It's smarmy lawyers seeing a company making a mistake and getting erections at the fabulous wealth it will bring them by using a system built by lawyers for lawyers to enrich themselves acting as the functional equivalent of parasites on a host body.