And the misinformation is already being quoted as fact. Per the discussion on G+ where the Wayland developers responded to the FUD from Canonical, AFAIK none of the claimed missing feature of Wayland are even missing. In fact from what I was reading tonight touch input has already been implemented in Wayland and the work on virtual keyboards and such is being worked on (Canonical hasn't even started this part of MIR).
Given the Canonical didn't even talk to the Wayland project it's not surprising but what Canonical claimed is nothing but FUD. They are trying to back justify their decision, but they didn't even bother to learn about Wayland before creating a bunch of false assumptions and FUD. Unfortunately that FUD is so far out there now that people are even quoting it as fact.
Go to G+ and google MIR, you'll find a number of threads where the Wayland developers point out that Canonical outright lied about what Wayland could/couldn't do. The linked post basically points this out, they didn't talk to Wayland, they didn't find out about wayland, they just wanted something they had total control over.
In the end they'll end up with a monster that eats coder time to no actual benefit where had they devoted those developers to Wayland they could have had more input into Wayland AND helped it get here quicker. It's a sad story of Shuttleworth desire for total control, even if what he ends up with is unmaintainable crap that's dropped after 2 versions and fragments the community in the interim. All because he wants a tablet/phone OS in a very crowded space.
It's ironic, if he wanted Android so bad, why didn't he just fork Android. The reality is he doesn't have the resources to do what Google did. Instead he's going to create a Frankenstein blend of (half-assed) Wayland, X and SurfaceFlinger that will likely have all the worst of each and none of the benefits.
Wayland is being developed by the same people behind X.org. 99.9% of the people lambasting Wayland have no idea what it is, what it's going to accomplish or how entrenched it already is.
Wayland is the future. It will take some time to get everything in place but it's already in play and many other project from the kernel to window managers are already moving towards implementing the plumbing necessary. Given this is slashdot I'm not particularly surprised by the ignorance, nor that people think something as complex as a complete rewrite of the GUI could be accomplished in weeks nor am I surprised that no one has bothered to actually learn about wayland and what it is but frankly the hatred is a bit surprising given the total ignorance. People hate software they know nothing about because they are afraid of change, it's just silly.
You think they would at least try to learn what it is given that almost all the people behind it are the same people behind X.org.
Only two possible acronyms! That's right, just like the other idiots you think that only YOU can decide what are valid acronyms and if you don't think it's right, and you are the only valid judge of such things. Clearly you are clearly superior to everyone else, even if you are basement dwelling troglodyte with autism.
NASA has a ~300 page book of just acronyms. There are many, and just because you think you know what one of them means doesn't mean you have a clue what the author used, that's why people define what the acronym they are using means (well people not stupid enough to think there is only one definition), because there are so many of them. But there are stupid people that thing there is only one or two acronyms to any given sequence of letters and that they can't have similar meanings. It's as valid as a criticism of grammar that's riddled with grammatical errors. Internet is full of experts that aren't and you are one of them.
Have you ever considered perhaps that every acronym you can imagine there are other acronyms that are spelled identical and have similar meaning but use complete different words?
i.e. NSA = National Security Agency or NSA = National Speakers Association or NSA = National Stuttering Association or NSA = National Society of Accountants or NSA = Network Security Appliance.
What makes you think that the acronym you think is the right one is the one I even intended? Or do you actually think every abbreviation only has one definition? I used the definition for NIH that I'm most familiar with, maybe instead of playing grammar nazi you should focus on content instead. But alas, you would rather demonstrate your belief in your own superiority.
BTW you're an asshole along with everyone else that felt the need to correct an abbreviation because only YOUR abbreviation is the correct one. Not that I expect much from someone that feels the need to post something as inane and free of content as your post was.
This just proves what everyone was saying last week. This decision was entirely based on NIH (Not in House) Syndrome. Ubuntu is convinced that they have to spend all their development resources on reinventing the wheel because Wayland isn't an internal project (but it could be).
It wasn't 6 months ago that Shuttleworth was complaining that Ubuntu needed to start making money, and here he is wasting development resources on reinventing things. Between Mir, Upstart, Harmony, and all the others he's going to have forked everything but the kernel (hey maybe that's next!, I hear forking the FreeBSD Kernel is common) and his costs only go up while he spends all his time fixing bugs all by himself. The result will be Ubuntu advancement will slow down, or it will become a buggy POS with no long term security.
Either way I think they suffer from NIH disease and maybe they should consider a fork of the FreeBSD kernel. I imagine it won't be long before Mint/Arch or whatever fully replaces all the popularity Ubuntu managed to create. I already see Mint recommended more often than Ubuntu.
Because carrier collusion is good for business. Why would you ask such a stupid question? You just asked why 3 business would collude to have higher prices. Well duh, it's cause it's more profitable.
Fact is the largest reason pre-paid plans are beginning to displace contract plans is because they are cheaper. There's going to be a turning point at some point in the future if people keep picking prepaid plans, and that turning point will be when the big three carriers all switch to similar pricing plans for hardware that T-Mobile does.
Yes they can start shooting at any time. But they can't say they are canceling the armistice then continue to comply with the armistice. There is no question they could start shooting, but they have no intention of doing so. Claiming they are withdrawing from the treaty every year then continuing to abide by it proves they can't withdraw from it unilaterally then pretend they didn't a month later.
They aren't withdrawing, they are just saying they are. Anyone with common sense can see that is the case until they actually start shooting.
You can run X on top of wayland. The misinformation and misunderstanding of what wayland is and what it's trying to accomplish is astounding given the information is a click away. I suggest you visit LWN and consult Corbet's two articles on the subject and educate yourself about what wayland is and what it's trying to accomplish. Wayland is likely to replace X as the default desktop in every distribution and in fact almost every distribution has already announced plans to migrate when it's ready. Remember, you can still run X on top of Wayland.
Official US position is that use of weapons of Mass Destruction against the US homeland, US troops or allies protected by the "nuclear umbrella" will result in nuclear retaliation.
MADD can only work if you are willing to retaliate in kind. It would be foolish of the US NOT to retaliate with nukes as it would empower enemies with the idea that we won't attack. Al Queda sprang from that very idea after the bombing in Lebannon and the lack of US retaliation along with half a dozen other instances where the US did essentially the same thing when confronted with attacks.
The only reason the iPhone was as successful as it was is because the total cost in the US was concealed inside phone plans. If it had been for sale at the full price of $800-$1000 that carriers were paying it would have been a commercial failure in the US.
The US market is highly price sensitive, a do everything product that everyone wants might not sell at all because it's $50 outside people's price threshold.
Mark Shuttleworth while proclaiming publicly and often that he won't support the company forever and that it needs to be profitable decides in his infinite wisdom to not only fork a major toolchain piece (upstart) but to fork the GUI as well. Rather than putting his limited resourced into the community projects.
I think he has as much chance succeeding at this as he does of the aliens giving him the technology.
I was not advocating either position. Simply pointing out that all his math didn't mean a hill of beans unless he compares tire size. I'm quite aware that the bicycle has almost no impact on a conventionally designed roadway, in fact weather and age do more damage BUT if you are going to start taking about road damage authoritatively you better damn well be using the proper results.
Pavements are designed using ESAL (Equivalent Single Axel Loads) and CBR (California Bearing Ratio), this is to convert everything into axel loads (which are easy to measure) and normalized pavement strengths (to account for variances in the materials used to build roads), but to use these equations you have to make assumptions about tire size and weight because as I said, it's the pounds per square inch point load which is destructive factor. Fortunately because of the way cars and trucks are designed there is a fairly tight mathematical relationship between tire size and vehicle weight in the different classes of vehicle. I doubt that the same equation works with bicycles nor do I believe anyone's ever bothered to due the research because bicycles aren't a design consideration of pavements.
The OP is simply stating what many of us have experienced, a young work force can innovate better, because they aren't handicapped by experience, but the younger workforces lack of experience handicaps their wisdom and knowledge.
I have no doubt Google will come up with an amazing and neat product, I also have no doubt that they will overlook some problems that will be very serious for some people in the wider world. The experience to know that and to reach out to experts in the field comes with wisdom and age. The guy with 30 years experience in the stuff has already pointed out some that Google could be very aware of but have no intention of fixing (because they have a young workforce that can handle the adjustment) and might find out later that some 60 year old lady fell down the stairs because she wore Google glass for a week and it totally fucked up her depth perception.
We shouldn't treat Google like a god, understanding the brain, eyes and how things interact in the mind is tough and we just don't have the knowledge base here to predict all the outcomes. As someone who's had serious medical problems with my eyes (and almost ended up blind) I can tell you that Mann's concerns are valid, its very easy to mess up your perception with tragic consequences. I can remember walking up to a set of stairs and having to stop because I couldn't tell where they started. It's a very unpleasant experience.
Talk about unintended consequences. Aerial photography is a key aspect of construction, particularly road construction, private development and others. It's used to create digital terrain models that are used in the design and construction. It's basically aerial surveying.
Personally I don't think they could ban it for first amendment reasons and second they will get a huge backlash from the construction industry. Though the flights are manned right now, it won't be long before they aren't and prices drop accordingly.
People keep saying this. If there was no legal uncertainty Wynn Corporation, MGM and all the other big gaming companies would have been doing it 10 year ago. Gaming over state lines was made illegal in the days of Al Capone. People keep arguing that those statues don't apply because it's the internet rather than telephones (which is frankly an asinine argument). Personally I think the fact that every major gaming house refuses to bet across state lines as better evidence of the reality.
Nevada legalized online gaming, but only in the state of Nevada (you have to be in the state of Nevada to place a wager online and they check it rigorously). I wouldn't be surprised if Jersey does the same thing because frankly they start taking bets online (across state lines) and they are going to have warrants issued in the states that don't allow it and I can guarantee that Utah will be one of them. Any corporation willing to game across state lines better be prepared to have their executives spend some time in jail.
I'm certain that the probability of legal online gambling in the US across state lines is zero. It's been illegal and will continue to be illegal because the states that don't allow gambling will always have the number of votes they need in congress to prevent it. I personally believe this is nothing more Cristie trying to save Atlantic City from collapse by trying to milk gaming addicts across state lines and he's going to fail when the feds come down and say you can't do it across state lines. And if he pushes it this will end any national political career chances. People in states with legal gaming have NO idea big of an issue this is in states that don't allow gaming.
I'd like to see solid evidence of this story. I find it highly suspect that these machines were decommissioned the same month a court ordered the TSA to present evidence why they hadn't done the health study he ordered.
I personally believe the TSA DID start the health study required and the initial results scared them so bad they decided to create a scenario that removed the machines. Those machines were taking X-rays of people 10's of feet away from the machines (see some of the demo pictures released). They were NOT in the power limits they specified and they were giving people radiation doses 10's of thousands of times higher than claimed. I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of TSA workers end up with cancer that were operating these machines.
The problem with this article is people have no idea why the car manufacturers are upset, all they see is some big corporation opposing the release of more unlicensed public spectrum (and some sensationalist WIFI BS by bloggers). Or course this draws out the communists among us that want all corporations to go away.
This all fails to miss the entire point of why the Auto companies are opposing this. This spectrum is directly adjacent to spectrum allocated for intercar communication. What is intercar communication? It's spectrum that was allocated a number of years ago to allow direct communication between vehicles. What is the point of that? Well one of the key aspects of this spectrum is that without it you don't have reliable inter-car communication which will greatly hamper self driving cars.
See, if you are going to have self driving cars those cars need to be able to communicate with each other, they need to tell the cars around them that they need to change lanes, or that they are breaking. The holy grail of self driving cars is a situation where cars are driving 70MPH with about 2 feet between them. This will greatly increase the density of cars and allow the freeways to operate about 200% more efficiently than now. But for that all to work that cars have to tell each other what they are doing so the other vehicles can react. Even with no perception-reaction time for computers you will greatly decrease the possible efficiency if the cars can't communicate real time. The only way to make this safe is dedicated spectrum with low interference.
If we have thousands of WIFI signals in adjacent spectrum there will be so much interference that the systems won't be reliable, the result will either be safety problems or drastically reduced efficiency. Self driving cars are a holy grail of ITS (intelligent transportation systems) that has been being pursued since the early 90's. It will result in freeways that are so much more efficient than today that you could fit 3-4 times the number of cars in the same freeway without any slow downs or rush hour traffic jams. Not only that but you could read a book while driving to work.
We don't want to impede or endanger self driving cars. The car manufacturers concerns about interference need to be taken seriously.
That's exactly why many of us oppose those kind of laws. A significant number of places that use those cameras require an identifiable picture of the driver. Those that don't IMO are a severe constitutional breach that needs to be challenged up to the supreme court of necessary. The problem is that the fines (and lack of a hit to your drivers license or insurance) of make it more worthwhile to simply pay the fine. It's going to take some wealthy person with the will to spend 10-100X more than the fine to fight it and in the end the state will probably just drop the case to prevent a precedent.
I personally believe this is why you've seen action by groups of ordinary people to get their politicians to make these systems illegal. My state banned them entirely because of how easily they could be used to abuse people for financial reasons.
The Sulfur in coal burning is readily scrubbed and sold as sulfuric acid, in fact all the heavy metals are scrubbed and sold for industrial uses. This has been true since the EPA forced the installation of the initial scrubbers and the big coal users found out the scrubbers paid for themselves in the chemicals they extracted.
The fly ash itself is also highly valuable in the cement products industry. In fact it's so valuable as a pozzolan that they make fly ash directly (not as a byproduct) to meet the fly ash demand as current coal burning doesn't produce enough. Almost every byproduct of coal burning except the CO2 is a viable commodity these days.
No, it's been illegal since the days of Al Capone to place a wager by telephone across state lines, those same laws apply to internet communications. Funding has been an issue, but never the only issue. If they start allowing people to wager across state lines they are going to end up in jail. This is the very reason the US went after the operations in the first place, Gambling is a state regulated activity.
In my state in particular there isn't a single form of legal gambling. No horses or dogs, no lottery and no table games of any kind. In fact the state refuses to allow a lottery because of the fear of the Indian tribes opening casinos (Tribes can only open casinos if gaming is allowed in the state, by that I mean any form of gaming, if the state outright prohibits gaming of all kinds the Tribe is unable to open a casino under federal law). But the state directly to the north allows a state lottery, as a result the major Indian Tribe has a very large Casino inside the reservation.
Read the blog post, it takes 2 minutes. He did run out of charge, in fact he KNEW he was going to run out of charge because he took a 61 mile drive with a 32 mile reading on the charge indicator. During that drive he drove past several charging stations.
He also drove around in circles in a parking lot trying to make it run out of juice at one point.
The writer had an agenda, and he should have known they would log the data and prove him a liar. Musk was incensed by the Top Gear article and proclaimed that he would never let a journalist have a car without logging enabled.
Frankly the writer of the article should be fired, this evidence is very damning.
Your branching off into a discussion that's teeming with ethical concerns. In fact we have the ability right now to make "human" mice, or in other words mice with human organs and genes. These mice don't exist (in wide use) right now because of the ethical concerns.
You might find it silly, but there are people that don't even want mice with human organs because of the ethical and moral (read religious) concerns of creating such an organism.
These satellites are used for water management, agriculture and many other things that are vital infrastructure. As an example, my state uses LandSAT data to estimate water use by using the thermal maps LandSAT produces and from this can make fairly accurate predictions of actual water use and resulting draw down of critical reservoirs.
It's also a huge issue as right now there is going to be a gap of about 2 years when one of the sats dies and before it's replacement gets up and it's going to get worse as more of the aging sats die. This is one of those aspects of government spending that is critical in many ways and will be severely damaged by government spending cuts. The amount of money these programs occupy is miniscule compared against their benefit.
I think there is a connection as well. You've got a bunch of deaf guys that were molested and have been public about it for more than 30 years. You have Benedict who under his authority basically covered up the entire thing worldwide. As the Documentary exposes, this was not just an American problem, this has occurred all over Europe too.
I personally believe this is directly tied to the HBO documentary, it's not coincidence that is started airing a little over a week ago.
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And the misinformation is already being quoted as fact. Per the discussion on G+ where the Wayland developers responded to the FUD from Canonical, AFAIK none of the claimed missing feature of Wayland are even missing. In fact from what I was reading tonight touch input has already been implemented in Wayland and the work on virtual keyboards and such is being worked on (Canonical hasn't even started this part of MIR).
Given the Canonical didn't even talk to the Wayland project it's not surprising but what Canonical claimed is nothing but FUD. They are trying to back justify their decision, but they didn't even bother to learn about Wayland before creating a bunch of false assumptions and FUD. Unfortunately that FUD is so far out there now that people are even quoting it as fact.
Go to G+ and google MIR, you'll find a number of threads where the Wayland developers point out that Canonical outright lied about what Wayland could/couldn't do. The linked post basically points this out, they didn't talk to Wayland, they didn't find out about wayland, they just wanted something they had total control over.
In the end they'll end up with a monster that eats coder time to no actual benefit where had they devoted those developers to Wayland they could have had more input into Wayland AND helped it get here quicker. It's a sad story of Shuttleworth desire for total control, even if what he ends up with is unmaintainable crap that's dropped after 2 versions and fragments the community in the interim. All because he wants a tablet/phone OS in a very crowded space.
It's ironic, if he wanted Android so bad, why didn't he just fork Android. The reality is he doesn't have the resources to do what Google did. Instead he's going to create a Frankenstein blend of (half-assed) Wayland, X and SurfaceFlinger that will likely have all the worst of each and none of the benefits.
Wayland is being developed by the same people behind X.org. 99.9% of the people lambasting Wayland have no idea what it is, what it's going to accomplish or how entrenched it already is.
Wayland is the future. It will take some time to get everything in place but it's already in play and many other project from the kernel to window managers are already moving towards implementing the plumbing necessary. Given this is slashdot I'm not particularly surprised by the ignorance, nor that people think something as complex as a complete rewrite of the GUI could be accomplished in weeks nor am I surprised that no one has bothered to actually learn about wayland and what it is but frankly the hatred is a bit surprising given the total ignorance. People hate software they know nothing about because they are afraid of change, it's just silly.
You think they would at least try to learn what it is given that almost all the people behind it are the same people behind X.org.
Only two possible acronyms! That's right, just like the other idiots you think that only YOU can decide what are valid acronyms and if you don't think it's right, and you are the only valid judge of such things. Clearly you are clearly superior to everyone else, even if you are basement dwelling troglodyte with autism.
NASA has a ~300 page book of just acronyms. There are many, and just because you think you know what one of them means doesn't mean you have a clue what the author used, that's why people define what the acronym they are using means (well people not stupid enough to think there is only one definition), because there are so many of them. But there are stupid people that thing there is only one or two acronyms to any given sequence of letters and that they can't have similar meanings. It's as valid as a criticism of grammar that's riddled with grammatical errors. Internet is full of experts that aren't and you are one of them.
Have you ever considered perhaps that every acronym you can imagine there are other acronyms that are spelled identical and have similar meaning but use complete different words?
i.e.
NSA = National Security Agency or
NSA = National Speakers Association or
NSA = National Stuttering Association or
NSA = National Society of Accountants or
NSA = Network Security Appliance.
What makes you think that the acronym you think is the right one is the one I even intended? Or do you actually think every abbreviation only has one definition? I used the definition for NIH that I'm most familiar with, maybe instead of playing grammar nazi you should focus on content instead. But alas, you would rather demonstrate your belief in your own superiority.
BTW you're an asshole along with everyone else that felt the need to correct an abbreviation because only YOUR abbreviation is the correct one. Not that I expect much from someone that feels the need to post something as inane and free of content as your post was.
This just proves what everyone was saying last week. This decision was entirely based on NIH (Not in House) Syndrome. Ubuntu is convinced that they have to spend all their development resources on reinventing the wheel because Wayland isn't an internal project (but it could be).
It wasn't 6 months ago that Shuttleworth was complaining that Ubuntu needed to start making money, and here he is wasting development resources on reinventing things. Between Mir, Upstart, Harmony, and all the others he's going to have forked everything but the kernel (hey maybe that's next!, I hear forking the FreeBSD Kernel is common) and his costs only go up while he spends all his time fixing bugs all by himself. The result will be Ubuntu advancement will slow down, or it will become a buggy POS with no long term security.
Either way I think they suffer from NIH disease and maybe they should consider a fork of the FreeBSD kernel. I imagine it won't be long before Mint/Arch or whatever fully replaces all the popularity Ubuntu managed to create. I already see Mint recommended more often than Ubuntu.
Because carrier collusion is good for business. Why would you ask such a stupid question? You just asked why 3 business would collude to have higher prices. Well duh, it's cause it's more profitable.
Fact is the largest reason pre-paid plans are beginning to displace contract plans is because they are cheaper. There's going to be a turning point at some point in the future if people keep picking prepaid plans, and that turning point will be when the big three carriers all switch to similar pricing plans for hardware that T-Mobile does.
Yes they can start shooting at any time. But they can't say they are canceling the armistice then continue to comply with the armistice. There is no question they could start shooting, but they have no intention of doing so. Claiming they are withdrawing from the treaty every year then continuing to abide by it proves they can't withdraw from it unilaterally then pretend they didn't a month later.
They aren't withdrawing, they are just saying they are. Anyone with common sense can see that is the case until they actually start shooting.
You can run X on top of wayland. The misinformation and misunderstanding of what wayland is and what it's trying to accomplish is astounding given the information is a click away. I suggest you visit LWN and consult Corbet's two articles on the subject and educate yourself about what wayland is and what it's trying to accomplish. Wayland is likely to replace X as the default desktop in every distribution and in fact almost every distribution has already announced plans to migrate when it's ready. Remember, you can still run X on top of Wayland.
Official US position is that use of weapons of Mass Destruction against the US homeland, US troops or allies protected by the "nuclear umbrella" will result in nuclear retaliation.
MADD can only work if you are willing to retaliate in kind. It would be foolish of the US NOT to retaliate with nukes as it would empower enemies with the idea that we won't attack. Al Queda sprang from that very idea after the bombing in Lebannon and the lack of US retaliation along with half a dozen other instances where the US did essentially the same thing when confronted with attacks.
The only reason the iPhone was as successful as it was is because the total cost in the US was concealed inside phone plans. If it had been for sale at the full price of $800-$1000 that carriers were paying it would have been a commercial failure in the US.
The US market is highly price sensitive, a do everything product that everyone wants might not sell at all because it's $50 outside people's price threshold.
Mark Shuttleworth while proclaiming publicly and often that he won't support the company forever and that it needs to be profitable decides in his infinite wisdom to not only fork a major toolchain piece (upstart) but to fork the GUI as well. Rather than putting his limited resourced into the community projects.
I think he has as much chance succeeding at this as he does of the aliens giving him the technology.
I was not advocating either position. Simply pointing out that all his math didn't mean a hill of beans unless he compares tire size. I'm quite aware that the bicycle has almost no impact on a conventionally designed roadway, in fact weather and age do more damage BUT if you are going to start taking about road damage authoritatively you better damn well be using the proper results.
Pavements are designed using ESAL (Equivalent Single Axel Loads) and CBR (California Bearing Ratio), this is to convert everything into axel loads (which are easy to measure) and normalized pavement strengths (to account for variances in the materials used to build roads), but to use these equations you have to make assumptions about tire size and weight because as I said, it's the pounds per square inch point load which is destructive factor. Fortunately because of the way cars and trucks are designed there is a fairly tight mathematical relationship between tire size and vehicle weight in the different classes of vehicle. I doubt that the same equation works with bicycles nor do I believe anyone's ever bothered to due the research because bicycles aren't a design consideration of pavements.
Road damage is a function of pounds per square inch. What did you fail to take into account?
Hint: Tire size.
The OP is simply stating what many of us have experienced, a young work force can innovate better, because they aren't handicapped by experience, but the younger workforces lack of experience handicaps their wisdom and knowledge.
I have no doubt Google will come up with an amazing and neat product, I also have no doubt that they will overlook some problems that will be very serious for some people in the wider world. The experience to know that and to reach out to experts in the field comes with wisdom and age. The guy with 30 years experience in the stuff has already pointed out some that Google could be very aware of but have no intention of fixing (because they have a young workforce that can handle the adjustment) and might find out later that some 60 year old lady fell down the stairs because she wore Google glass for a week and it totally fucked up her depth perception.
We shouldn't treat Google like a god, understanding the brain, eyes and how things interact in the mind is tough and we just don't have the knowledge base here to predict all the outcomes. As someone who's had serious medical problems with my eyes (and almost ended up blind) I can tell you that Mann's concerns are valid, its very easy to mess up your perception with tragic consequences. I can remember walking up to a set of stairs and having to stop because I couldn't tell where they started. It's a very unpleasant experience.
Talk about unintended consequences. Aerial photography is a key aspect of construction, particularly road construction, private development and others. It's used to create digital terrain models that are used in the design and construction. It's basically aerial surveying.
Personally I don't think they could ban it for first amendment reasons and second they will get a huge backlash from the construction industry. Though the flights are manned right now, it won't be long before they aren't and prices drop accordingly.
People keep saying this. If there was no legal uncertainty Wynn Corporation, MGM and all the other big gaming companies would have been doing it 10 year ago. Gaming over state lines was made illegal in the days of Al Capone. People keep arguing that those statues don't apply because it's the internet rather than telephones (which is frankly an asinine argument). Personally I think the fact that every major gaming house refuses to bet across state lines as better evidence of the reality.
Nevada legalized online gaming, but only in the state of Nevada (you have to be in the state of Nevada to place a wager online and they check it rigorously). I wouldn't be surprised if Jersey does the same thing because frankly they start taking bets online (across state lines) and they are going to have warrants issued in the states that don't allow it and I can guarantee that Utah will be one of them. Any corporation willing to game across state lines better be prepared to have their executives spend some time in jail.
I'm certain that the probability of legal online gambling in the US across state lines is zero. It's been illegal and will continue to be illegal because the states that don't allow gambling will always have the number of votes they need in congress to prevent it. I personally believe this is nothing more Cristie trying to save Atlantic City from collapse by trying to milk gaming addicts across state lines and he's going to fail when the feds come down and say you can't do it across state lines. And if he pushes it this will end any national political career chances. People in states with legal gaming have NO idea big of an issue this is in states that don't allow gaming.
I'd like to see solid evidence of this story. I find it highly suspect that these machines were decommissioned the same month a court ordered the TSA to present evidence why they hadn't done the health study he ordered.
I personally believe the TSA DID start the health study required and the initial results scared them so bad they decided to create a scenario that removed the machines. Those machines were taking X-rays of people 10's of feet away from the machines (see some of the demo pictures released). They were NOT in the power limits they specified and they were giving people radiation doses 10's of thousands of times higher than claimed. I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of TSA workers end up with cancer that were operating these machines.
The problem with this article is people have no idea why the car manufacturers are upset, all they see is some big corporation opposing the release of more unlicensed public spectrum (and some sensationalist WIFI BS by bloggers). Or course this draws out the communists among us that want all corporations to go away.
This all fails to miss the entire point of why the Auto companies are opposing this. This spectrum is directly adjacent to spectrum allocated for intercar communication. What is intercar communication? It's spectrum that was allocated a number of years ago to allow direct communication between vehicles. What is the point of that? Well one of the key aspects of this spectrum is that without it you don't have reliable inter-car communication which will greatly hamper self driving cars.
See, if you are going to have self driving cars those cars need to be able to communicate with each other, they need to tell the cars around them that they need to change lanes, or that they are breaking. The holy grail of self driving cars is a situation where cars are driving 70MPH with about 2 feet between them. This will greatly increase the density of cars and allow the freeways to operate about 200% more efficiently than now. But for that all to work that cars have to tell each other what they are doing so the other vehicles can react. Even with no perception-reaction time for computers you will greatly decrease the possible efficiency if the cars can't communicate real time. The only way to make this safe is dedicated spectrum with low interference.
If we have thousands of WIFI signals in adjacent spectrum there will be so much interference that the systems won't be reliable, the result will either be safety problems or drastically reduced efficiency. Self driving cars are a holy grail of ITS (intelligent transportation systems) that has been being pursued since the early 90's. It will result in freeways that are so much more efficient than today that you could fit 3-4 times the number of cars in the same freeway without any slow downs or rush hour traffic jams. Not only that but you could read a book while driving to work.
We don't want to impede or endanger self driving cars. The car manufacturers concerns about interference need to be taken seriously.
That's exactly why many of us oppose those kind of laws. A significant number of places that use those cameras require an identifiable picture of the driver. Those that don't IMO are a severe constitutional breach that needs to be challenged up to the supreme court of necessary. The problem is that the fines (and lack of a hit to your drivers license or insurance) of make it more worthwhile to simply pay the fine. It's going to take some wealthy person with the will to spend 10-100X more than the fine to fight it and in the end the state will probably just drop the case to prevent a precedent.
I personally believe this is why you've seen action by groups of ordinary people to get their politicians to make these systems illegal. My state banned them entirely because of how easily they could be used to abuse people for financial reasons.
The Sulfur in coal burning is readily scrubbed and sold as sulfuric acid, in fact all the heavy metals are scrubbed and sold for industrial uses. This has been true since the EPA forced the installation of the initial scrubbers and the big coal users found out the scrubbers paid for themselves in the chemicals they extracted.
The fly ash itself is also highly valuable in the cement products industry. In fact it's so valuable as a pozzolan that they make fly ash directly (not as a byproduct) to meet the fly ash demand as current coal burning doesn't produce enough. Almost every byproduct of coal burning except the CO2 is a viable commodity these days.
No, it's been illegal since the days of Al Capone to place a wager by telephone across state lines, those same laws apply to internet communications. Funding has been an issue, but never the only issue. If they start allowing people to wager across state lines they are going to end up in jail. This is the very reason the US went after the operations in the first place, Gambling is a state regulated activity.
In my state in particular there isn't a single form of legal gambling. No horses or dogs, no lottery and no table games of any kind. In fact the state refuses to allow a lottery because of the fear of the Indian tribes opening casinos (Tribes can only open casinos if gaming is allowed in the state, by that I mean any form of gaming, if the state outright prohibits gaming of all kinds the Tribe is unable to open a casino under federal law). But the state directly to the north allows a state lottery, as a result the major Indian Tribe has a very large Casino inside the reservation.
Read the blog post, it takes 2 minutes. He did run out of charge, in fact he KNEW he was going to run out of charge because he took a 61 mile drive with a 32 mile reading on the charge indicator. During that drive he drove past several charging stations.
He also drove around in circles in a parking lot trying to make it run out of juice at one point.
The writer had an agenda, and he should have known they would log the data and prove him a liar. Musk was incensed by the Top Gear article and proclaimed that he would never let a journalist have a car without logging enabled.
Frankly the writer of the article should be fired, this evidence is very damning.
Your branching off into a discussion that's teeming with ethical concerns. In fact we have the ability right now to make "human" mice, or in other words mice with human organs and genes. These mice don't exist (in wide use) right now because of the ethical concerns.
You might find it silly, but there are people that don't even want mice with human organs because of the ethical and moral (read religious) concerns of creating such an organism.
These satellites are used for water management, agriculture and many other things that are vital infrastructure. As an example, my state uses LandSAT data to estimate water use by using the thermal maps LandSAT produces and from this can make fairly accurate predictions of actual water use and resulting draw down of critical reservoirs.
It's also a huge issue as right now there is going to be a gap of about 2 years when one of the sats dies and before it's replacement gets up and it's going to get worse as more of the aging sats die. This is one of those aspects of government spending that is critical in many ways and will be severely damaged by government spending cuts. The amount of money these programs occupy is miniscule compared against their benefit.
I think there is a connection as well. You've got a bunch of deaf guys that were molested and have been public about it for more than 30 years. You have Benedict who under his authority basically covered up the entire thing worldwide. As the Documentary exposes, this was not just an American problem, this has occurred all over Europe too.
I personally believe this is directly tied to the HBO documentary, it's not coincidence that is started airing a little over a week ago.