Just because the Iraq war is a grossly egregious waste of money doesn't mean that we ignore waste elsewhere.
The problem is that the public has a limited attention span. If we're going to focus on government waste, then let's focus on the *biggest* sources of waste where it can have the most impact while we can. It's all well and good to get rid of the most sensational examples, but let's use that as a springboard to tackle the bigger problems rather than patting ourselves on the backs and getting back to business as usual once it's done. Because pretty soon this whole thing will be forgotten (probably the first Wednesday in November, at the latest), and the only things in the news will be the latest celebrity death, missing blonde girl, or tragic natural disaster.
Changing the characteristics of an electric car isn't as simple as re-jetting the carbs or swopping out the air filter.
Or spelling swapping, apparently. Fortunately, people rarely do any of this themselves unless they already know what they're doing. Usually they just buy parts (or, say, EEPROM firmware) made by someone who does.
I don't think that's accurate. According to the incident report, the problem is passing a signed int to a function expecting an unsigned int. That means passing unsigned values > 2^(n-1)-1 will cause unexpectedly large allocations leading to a heap overflow regardless of whether n is 32, 64, or 8.
According to the incident report: Producing DER data to demonstrate this is relatively easy for both x86 and x64 architectures.
I think TFA's headline was pretty accurate: Whooping cough vaccine fades in pre-teens.
Among fully immunized kids, there were about 36 cases for every 10,000 children two to seven years old, compared to 245 out of every 10,000 kids aged eight to 12.
"The longer you went from your last vaccine, the greater your risk of disease," Witt told Reuters Health.
At age 13, the number of cases dropped, presumably because that's the age when children [were] eligible for their booster shot.
The CDC is apparently now recommending whooping cough booster shots be given at age 11:
Tdap [tetanus-diptheria-pertussis (whooping cough)] booster is recommended instead of the previously recommended Td (tetanus-diphtheria) booster.
Ah yes, blame the nerds. That's how it goes, right? Hackers steal your money and government secrets, nerds will shoot up your school, and they smell all funny to boot. Except it's *criminals* who will do those things, not hackers and nerds. When someone gets arrested for robbing a bank, you don't say "A construction worker held up a bank." It's no different here, and labeling them just feeds a stereotype.
And while derivatives may have been invented by quantitative analysts (quants), they're not inherently risky -- they're just a vehicle. It's the type and diversity of securities packaged in the derivatives that determines the risk. The bankers knew full well what was getting packaged and why. The quants just gave them the "how." I'm not saying the soldiers aren't responsible for the consequences of following orders, but there's plenty of blame to go around, and ultimately those in command should be (or have been) held most responsible, since they are. That is, allegedly, why they get paid the big bucks.
Yes and no. You're responsible if you're negligent, but that can be difficult to prove, and the parent may have had a reasonable expectation that the in-app purchase would be protected by his password. That said, I think he's covering for the fact that he gave his kid the password.
But more to the point, children aren't legally responsible for credit card use (or pretty much anything) anyway. The only thing the parent had to do is call the credit card company and dispute the charge(s), or worst case put it in writing, and the CC company would do a charge back.
Also, do airports count as government areas or are they privately owned with Federal oversight?
No, they're within the jurisdiction of the local police or subdivisions of the local police (such as the LAXPD). The TSA ostensibly doesn't do law enforcement.
forgetting that it's obviously going to be obvious to me, I was thinking it, but not necessarily obvious what I meant to others, who are used to people with awful opinions posting on slashdot
Haha, yes, I often fall victim to the same self-delusions, and wonder how anyone can take the alternate interpretation to be the intended one. That said, I read at +3 so I don't see most of the awful opinions that may or may not be present.
Sorry, that's not what I meant to infer. I was referring to the rose trick as the patentable invention. Since most magic tricks are machines/gadgets, and since this rose is sold along with instructions on how to use it, we can assume it's an invention.
Unless someone can tell me what idea is being expressed by a dance, it shouldn't be covered by anything.
Dance and pantomime arguably shouldn't be copyrightable either. If anything, this would fall under patent law since it's an invention, but of course they don't want to file patents and disclose how it works, which makes it a trade secret and subject to reverse engineering.
This technically wasn't even a manufacturing defect. It was a specifications defect. Nvidia provides manufacturers with very detailed information on their raw products, including cooling requirements.
Tomato, tomato. The distinction is important for correcting the problem, but not for avoiding the consequences.
If I'm a cabinet manufacturer and I order hinges that are rated at 100,000 operations I expect them to last that long on the average, you can't expect me to make some cabinets and then open and close them 50,000 times to make sure the hardware is as durable as the manufacturer claims it is before selling any. Manufactures have to put some trust in their OEMs' specs.
They don't have to; they choose to because it's usually cheaper. The fact is that in this case, it turned out to be more expensive, but on the whole it's still a gain I'm sure. I can tell you for a fact that you don't take the manufacturer at their word when you put together a sub or a space shuttle; you test everything before acceptance and then perform NDT on every piece before it's used in production. While I don't expect Apple or any consumer goods manufacturer to go to those lengths (because it's quite expensive), most electronic manufacturers test samples (including Apple) and with some examples failing within weeks, this was surely a case of insufficient testing. Apple decided to replace them as they failed rather than issuing a voluntary recall, and that's their prerogative, but to claim they had no responsibility is just absurd.
For bandwidth, those of transmitting information on the same electromagnetic carrier frequency. You can use a given frequency for limitless* connections if each of those connections mediums is sufficiently isolated, but when they must all share the same transmission medium, you must use a method (TDMA, CDMA, etc.) to divide the usage appropriately. This means you only get a subset of the actual allotted carrier frequency rather than the entire available bandwidth. There are quite a few other problems with wireless communication, but that's the big one.
Inherent fluctuations in signal propagation through the atmosphere, affect how much (if any) of the usable signal reaches the listener. Additionally, there are potential sources of interference including natural background radiation (whether solar, cosmic, or terrestrial) that can and do interfere with the signal, further reducing actual bandwidth from its theoretical maximum. Physical links, particularly fiber optic and coaxial cables, though also twisted pairs (as in LAN cables) are much more stable mediums and less susceptible to interference.
As for latency, it's not about the speed of light; it's about how fast the signals can be processed, and mobile data has higher overhead, so it will always take longer to process.
No, they were footing the bill for their own screw-up. The part may have been defective, and nVidia may have made it, but Apple approved it for use in their own products based on, clearly, insufficient validation that the part met their standards. In the real world, that's how it works.
I'm disappointed in Obama as well, but referring to him as "it" is a little over the top. Dehumanizing the people you disagree with is the root of many of our problems.
Washington was also shy of the spotlight. Reluctant leaders are often the best kind.
I think that's probably where democracy got lost. When leaders are nominated by the people who know them, rather than "throwing their name in the hat," you tend to get people who are worthy of the position. When you have people nominating themselves, you get self-aggrandizing assholes. I'm not sure how to make the former work on a large scale that doesn't require campaigning though, which is nothing if not self-aggrandizing, and certainly not in a way that can't be gamed.
Ok, I'll bite. What form of government should be implemented after said revolution? As Churchill once said, democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried.
Not to mention your logic is circular. Either you have a majority of people willing to support a revolution, and thus could vote in the change they want peaceably, or else you have an armed minority enforcing their will on the majority. How is that better? Because you say so?
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Just because the Iraq war is a grossly egregious waste of money doesn't mean that we ignore waste elsewhere.
The problem is that the public has a limited attention span. If we're going to focus on government waste, then let's focus on the *biggest* sources of waste where it can have the most impact while we can. It's all well and good to get rid of the most sensational examples, but let's use that as a springboard to tackle the bigger problems rather than patting ourselves on the backs and getting back to business as usual once it's done. Because pretty soon this whole thing will be forgotten (probably the first Wednesday in November, at the latest), and the only things in the news will be the latest celebrity death, missing blonde girl, or tragic natural disaster.
It wasn't a fine, it was an award. This was a civil case.
Try the next couple of years, if that. BKs aren't what they used to be. And no better time to declare than in the middle of a recession.
Changing the characteristics of an electric car isn't as simple as re-jetting the carbs or swopping out the air filter.
Or spelling swapping, apparently. Fortunately, people rarely do any of this themselves unless they already know what they're doing. Usually they just buy parts (or, say, EEPROM firmware) made by someone who does.
I don't think that's accurate. According to the incident report, the problem is passing a signed int to a function expecting an unsigned int. That means passing unsigned values > 2^(n-1)-1 will cause unexpectedly large allocations leading to a heap overflow regardless of whether n is 32, 64, or 8.
According to the incident report: Producing DER data to demonstrate this is relatively easy for both x86 and x64 architectures.
But I could be wrong...
I think TFA's headline was pretty accurate: Whooping cough vaccine fades in pre-teens.
The CDC is apparently now recommending whooping cough booster shots be given at age 11:
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/pertussis/recs-summary.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/pertussis/default.htm#recs
Nothing (anti-vaccine) to see here. Move along.
Speak for yourself. Vaccines never work, pass it on!
Ah yes, blame the nerds. That's how it goes, right? Hackers steal your money and government secrets, nerds will shoot up your school, and they smell all funny to boot. Except it's *criminals* who will do those things, not hackers and nerds. When someone gets arrested for robbing a bank, you don't say "A construction worker held up a bank." It's no different here, and labeling them just feeds a stereotype.
And while derivatives may have been invented by quantitative analysts (quants), they're not inherently risky -- they're just a vehicle. It's the type and diversity of securities packaged in the derivatives that determines the risk. The bankers knew full well what was getting packaged and why. The quants just gave them the "how." I'm not saying the soldiers aren't responsible for the consequences of following orders, but there's plenty of blame to go around, and ultimately those in command should be (or have been) held most responsible, since they are. That is, allegedly, why they get paid the big bucks.
Yes and no. You're responsible if you're negligent, but that can be difficult to prove, and the parent may have had a reasonable expectation that the in-app purchase would be protected by his password. That said, I think he's covering for the fact that he gave his kid the password.
But more to the point, children aren't legally responsible for credit card use (or pretty much anything) anyway. The only thing the parent had to do is call the credit card company and dispute the charge(s), or worst case put it in writing, and the CC company would do a charge back.
the child managed to ring up $200 worth of in-app purchases in 15 minutes or less.
With some of those games offering tokens/credits/whatever for $100 at a time, it's not hard to imagine.
Also, do airports count as government areas or are they privately owned with Federal oversight?
No, they're within the jurisdiction of the local police or subdivisions of the local police (such as the LAXPD). The TSA ostensibly doesn't do law enforcement.
forgetting that it's obviously going to be obvious to me, I was thinking it, but not necessarily obvious what I meant to others, who are used to people with awful opinions posting on slashdot
Haha, yes, I often fall victim to the same self-delusions, and wonder how anyone can take the alternate interpretation to be the intended one. That said, I read at +3 so I don't see most of the awful opinions that may or may not be present.
Imply, not infer. Argh. Too much Mass Effect, not enough sleep.
Sorry, that's not what I meant to infer. I was referring to the rose trick as the patentable invention. Since most magic tricks are machines/gadgets, and since this rose is sold along with instructions on how to use it, we can assume it's an invention.
Unless someone can tell me what idea is being expressed by a dance, it shouldn't be covered by anything.
Interesting. Are you saying it's a JVM on a ring? Can you provide any more details or a link?
Dance and pantomime arguably shouldn't be copyrightable either. If anything, this would fall under patent law since it's an invention, but of course they don't want to file patents and disclose how it works, which makes it a trade secret and subject to reverse engineering.
This technically wasn't even a manufacturing defect. It was a specifications defect. Nvidia provides manufacturers with very detailed information on their raw products, including cooling requirements.
Tomato, tomato. The distinction is important for correcting the problem, but not for avoiding the consequences.
If I'm a cabinet manufacturer and I order hinges that are rated at 100,000 operations I expect them to last that long on the average, you can't expect me to make some cabinets and then open and close them 50,000 times to make sure the hardware is as durable as the manufacturer claims it is before selling any. Manufactures have to put some trust in their OEMs' specs.
They don't have to; they choose to because it's usually cheaper. The fact is that in this case, it turned out to be more expensive, but on the whole it's still a gain I'm sure. I can tell you for a fact that you don't take the manufacturer at their word when you put together a sub or a space shuttle; you test everything before acceptance and then perform NDT on every piece before it's used in production. While I don't expect Apple or any consumer goods manufacturer to go to those lengths (because it's quite expensive), most electronic manufacturers test samples (including Apple) and with some examples failing within weeks, this was surely a case of insufficient testing. Apple decided to replace them as they failed rather than issuing a voluntary recall, and that's their prerogative, but to claim they had no responsibility is just absurd.
For bandwidth, those of transmitting information on the same electromagnetic carrier frequency. You can use a given frequency for limitless* connections if each of those connections mediums is sufficiently isolated, but when they must all share the same transmission medium, you must use a method (TDMA, CDMA, etc.) to divide the usage appropriately. This means you only get a subset of the actual allotted carrier frequency rather than the entire available bandwidth. There are quite a few other problems with wireless communication, but that's the big one.
Inherent fluctuations in signal propagation through the atmosphere, affect how much (if any) of the usable signal reaches the listener. Additionally, there are potential sources of interference including natural background radiation (whether solar, cosmic, or terrestrial) that can and do interfere with the signal, further reducing actual bandwidth from its theoretical maximum. Physical links, particularly fiber optic and coaxial cables, though also twisted pairs (as in LAN cables) are much more stable mediums and less susceptible to interference.
As for latency, it's not about the speed of light; it's about how fast the signals can be processed, and mobile data has higher overhead, so it will always take longer to process.
* Limited only by the upstream bandwidth.
You may be soon.
They were footing the bill for Nvidia's screw-up
No, they were footing the bill for their own screw-up. The part may have been defective, and nVidia may have made it, but Apple approved it for use in their own products based on, clearly, insufficient validation that the part met their standards. In the real world, that's how it works.
I'm disappointed in Obama as well, but referring to him as "it" is a little over the top. Dehumanizing the people you disagree with is the root of many of our problems.
Since the sex offender registry was created. Public urination will land you there too. Enjoy college.
Washington was also shy of the spotlight. Reluctant leaders are often the best kind.
I think that's probably where democracy got lost. When leaders are nominated by the people who know them, rather than "throwing their name in the hat," you tend to get people who are worthy of the position. When you have people nominating themselves, you get self-aggrandizing assholes. I'm not sure how to make the former work on a large scale that doesn't require campaigning though, which is nothing if not self-aggrandizing, and certainly not in a way that can't be gamed.
Your post started off good, but then you wrote the rest of it.
Ok, I'll bite. What form of government should be implemented after said revolution? As Churchill once said, democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried.
Not to mention your logic is circular. Either you have a majority of people willing to support a revolution, and thus could vote in the change they want peaceably, or else you have an armed minority enforcing their will on the majority. How is that better? Because you say so?