The NSA spies on everyone. They operate pretty much independently of the executive and legislative branches. Their leaders though technically serve the president they are often independent in the sense that the occupant tends to survive presidential replacement and their leadership comes from the military. For some reason the political leadership tends to view them as an extension of the military and thus "above politics".
The fact that neither the legislature or president are bothered by the NSA spying on them all should scare the bejesus out of everyone.
They couldn't effectively ban them from setting up their own websites, what he's saying and is his major point is that the major internet companies, google, facebook, twitter, et all could effectively remove them from the internet by blocking their use of their resources.
ISIS entire recruiting effort is via facebook and twitter. Take away those two resources and you'd effectively handicap them. They realize this, when Twitter discussed shutting them down ISIS publicly threatened their executive staff with murder. That is how much ISIS fears having western internet access terminated. It's funny actually how dependent they are on Western companies they would happily destroy if they controlled them.
Advertisers have had a decade to understand that people don't want to see ads...
I don't think your average ABP user has any problem with ads in general. They do have a problem with the type of ads being produced right now. I would happily turn off ad blocking if I was guaranteed that there would be a limit to the number of ads per page (say top and bottom of page occupying less than 1/8th of total screen area at a time), they would be unobtrusive, would not contain auto-play video and were 100% guaranteed (with payment if not) that they did not contain malware. I don't even have a problem with video ads as long as they don't download and play automatically and are skip-able/stopable when you accidentally click them.
The ad industry abuses created ABP and popularized it. The fact that even the top ad companies push malware infected ad's through their systems is perfect evidence that all ad's should be blocked until the industry realizes it's mistakes and fixes them. The people viewing the page are the customer, and their satisfaction with the experience it was drives their presence. The ad companies still think they are the customer. There isn't an ad company I'm aware of that lets websites pre-screen and select ads and they don't even realize how badly that hurts them.
Very few websites produce original content. Most by a Reuters license then post the same new cycle that every other Reuters subscriber has access too. Then they all want to make boatloads of ad money on this same content.
Websites producing original content can make money, they can do so because they can charge a premium for ads and place steep restrictions on those ads so that viewers won't be compelled to block the ads. The problem is the content producers are used to working for the ad companies, not working for the viewer. The online industry has changed the model, the viewer is now the customer, not the ad company and the ones that are having problems with ABP and others are because they still think the ad company is the customer and do whatever the ad company wants.
If these sites were simply to acknowledge that the real customer here paying the bills is the eyeballs on the content and the ad companies are paying for access to those eyeballs they could greatly improve their revenue and business model. But that would mean they have to vet the ads, ensure they are unobtrusive and not annoying. This is a problem for the ad industry because they truly believe that only by being annoying can they be seen. Solutions like ABP are going to teach them this lesson, it's the reason they have been trying to get legislation passed making ad blocking illegal.
Game designers design for the lowest common denominator. This memory advance will be irrelevant until it's in 50% of the GPU's out there. This has been true for years and will remain true for years to come. No sane game developer would target the performance of a card that 90% of GPU's can't support.
Lead transfer to water from copper piping with lead based solder is negligible, even in stagnant water conditions. Lead piping on the other hand sees very little transfer only if the water is moving fairly rapidly, any stagnant water sitting in the lead pipes will pick up massive amounts of lead. All lead piping should be removed. Lead solder on the other hand is not a significant enough risk to require large capital investments to remove it, though if work is being done lead based solder should not be used.
This mistake is likely to set the research back a decade or more and there is precedent to back that. A while ago at the forefront of using modified viruses to alter gene's in patients an early experiment was conducted on a live human and ended up killing them. The researchers were careless but the field was ripe for some major discoveries and held the promise of being able to rewrite people's existing genetics to fix problems and possibly even extend life, the trick is controlling the bodies own immune system while the virus is active. The possibilities with this research were nearly endless.
This was easily one of the most promising fields in trans-genetics, if they can control the immune response. Almost overnight after the death the government regulators in most of the western countries shut down almost all the research in the field including even the animal models. It still hasn't recovered and may never recover.
I would wager this death and sickening of multiple people will do significant damage to the CBD research.
That's what preview is for. A timed edit doesn't help anything other than those who are in such a hurry to reply they don't actually read their post in the preview pane. And someone that careless should be allowed to demonstrate it.
PPM requires a defined volume of air and to do that one of the things that matters is the amount of diesels in an area and how closely spaced they are. That makes the measurement an entirely location dependent measurement if there aren't standard air volumes, number of vehicles, spacing and run time defined. This is the reason it's defined in the mass/distance method.
One other thing you should consider, the particulate emissions are some of the worst possible. The research on this is very new but medicine has been learning that the particulate emissions are cancer causers, mesothelioma in particular (the same one as asbestos). The most recent research is indicating that there is no safe level for these emissions and that diesels should probably be banned outright if they can't completely filter them. The initial research on this is the primary reason the emissions limit was set so low to begin with. VW killed people by lying about this. The ironic thing is VW is going to face lawsuits for the next 100 years from everyone that gets cancer or other lung problems trying to tie their problems to VW's lies.
The BP oil spill didn't kill a single person that I'm aware of.
The VW emissions will. The 5-12micron particles diesels emit kill people. They cause mesothelioma, the same cancer that asbestos does. Government sets a limit on these emissions that draws on a benefit/cost ratio on the number of people the emissions will kill, any increase in emissions above that rate will kill additional people and the kill rate is exponential with the increase.
No this probably isn't a eco disaster because the only thing it's likely to significantly hurt are people breathing those emissions but don't downplay the severity here. VW killed people by lying and that will be cold comfort to the person that ends up with untreatable lung cancer.
Yea I saw the study after posting. It required covering every square inch of the Sahara with solar farm which resulted in the 2 degree drop. That many solar panels generated 600 TW, total worldwide consumption right now is 1.5TW. Covering all of the Egyptian desert with solar panels generates 60 TW and it's local climate change was minuscule. We cannot alter the climate without the massive building I mentioned. We have no need for 600 TW right now so no one is going to do it.
The fact is if we put solar panels on the roofs of every building we'd have more power than we could consume, far more than enough in fact but it requires storage for such a thing to be viable. I believe the future of energy is going to be a mix of solar and wind primary while preserving much of the existing hydro. What they are finding with the wind and solar farms in west texas is that when the sun isn't shining the wind is blowing. The result is a balanced mix of solar and wind could provide 99% of the power you'd need, throw in some geothermal or gas turbines and you wouldn't need any other source of power.
Until there is research indicating otherwise I would not believe humans could either draw enough energy out of the wind, nor install enough solar panels to change the climate one bit. I would be surprised if you could measure a change of 1mph (or kph if you prefer) from one end of a wind farm to the other.
To effect the climate in this way would require MASSIVE construction. You'd need wind turbines literally covering an entire area with hundreds of thousands very closely spaced to appreciably alter wind patterns. And though this would alter the speed I sincerely doubt it would alter the pattern of wind appreciably. Wind is generated (primarily) by thermal differences in the atmosphere combined with rotation of the planet. To halt the wind patterns you'd have to change temperatures of areas, such as warming the pole's to the same temperature as the equator.
One of the fears with climate change is that changing sea ice patterns will alter sea currents that keep the poles warmer than they would otherwise be. Though I will concede there is always unknowns I will point to the cities we've built of concrete and glass. They have caused significant local climate changes (the heat island effect) yet have had no appreciable impact on regional or global albedo, and cities comprise the largest of all human constructions. We'd need more solar or wind turbines than we have buildings, roads and infrastructure and even then I doubt it would have an appreciable impact.
These fears are unfounded, IMO the only way humans could significantly affect this planet is through literally massive projects we simply don't have the will to build or through the current method being used which is to alter the composition of the atmosphere.
The Carlsbad facility has been in profitable operation for near on 30 years. They've never had an accident that I'm aware of, they produce power with no inputs other than sunlight and water and output power and water.
The technology is mature, effective and economical. The only thing that has kept solar thermal back is that fossil fuels have been cheaper and the significant land required for a solar thermal plant. Where fossil fuels to bear their real costs to both environment and in the case of oil the defense costs the US spends to keep the gulf production flowing solar thermal would probably be the most cost effective solution in the world. A whole bunch of plants were permitted when oil prices went up and they were all delayed when gas prices cratered.
You clearly have no idea how effective and economical the technology is. You are probably also one of those morons that thinks residential solar PV is uneconomical when it has an ROI of three years.
Persecution by private citizens isn't illegal nor should it be.
What's most ironic about people like you that spout this SJW label is that you want the same speech restrictions as the people you criticize, just for different reasons and on different people.
Free speech protects you from GOVERNMENT, the people with the guns and locked rooms that can put you in a room and keep you there with no human contact until you go crazy. Social consequences for speech are SPEECH. They might not be fair and you don't have to agree with them but the simple reality is that they are social consequences and they are characterized by more speech.
I certainly don't think it's fair to get someone fired for something they said but all along that path is simply people speaking and people speaking in reaction to the speech through both action and speech. In a country with free speech you need to understand that though the speech is free that doesn't mean its free of consequences from anyone but the government. And speaking unpopular things will have social consequences.
Any law that tries to limit social consequences from speech WILL limit speech and you are on the side for limited speech. The very thing you are railing against and asking for restrictions on is the very same thing as hate speech restrictions and blasphemy laws and they all lead the same place. Don't be anti-speech.
You might never give up but you will surrender to torture. Everyone does.
The soldiers tortured during Vietnam without exception gave the Vietnamese torturers what they were asking for. They also gave them a pound of garbage for every real thing they gave them, because that's what torture does, forces the torturee to provide invalid and garbage intelligence to make the torture stop and it's the reason there is little to no point in doing it.
There is no dishonor is surrendering to torture or other forms of abuse.
Others have already pointed out that said message is posted with a domain name that isn't known to be associated to him and is designed to look like it is his normal domain (imurdock versus ianmurdock) and which doesn't match any of his previous twitter posts.
This makes the messages entirely of suspicious origin.
I'm sure Italy's tax bureau works much like the IRS. When the IRS thinks you have cheated on your taxes or you haven't filed returns, what they do is take your income and multiply it by the tax rate. No deductions are included and all penalties and interest are calculated on this amount. But if you begin negotiations to pay the bill with the IRS they will often let you file actual returns that included deductions. These deductions significantly reduce owed taxes. In addition on large negotiated settlements like this they will often waive the penalties and normalize the interest to the actual taxes owed.
Given those constraints it wouldn't be unusual for the 318 million euro's to be the actual taxes and interest that is owed. Penalties are there to force compliance, tax agencies rarely collect them when someone negotiates. And outside a court case where the plaintiff refuses to cooperate the tax agencies rarely take more than they are actually owed. Keep in mind interest rates since 2008 have been near zero so interest on the debt will be very small.
Most German cars are frequently in the shop. The German manufacturers have cultivated this myth about their engineering but in reality the cars they make are actually on the very low end of the reliability ratings. I inherited a Golf, it was a fun car to drive, very nice interior, but the power steering went out at 50k miles and it was a $1200 repair. This along with a long line of mechanical problems.
I won't ever buy a VW because of that experience. They are overpriced junk that even Chevy beats in reliability.
Are you so oblivious that you haven't noticed the batteries in your devices getting more and more powerful for the same weight and size? Every year they squeeze more and more out of the batteries and you've been ignoring it the whole time. Years of these breakthroughs dramatically improving the batteries you use every day and you haven't even noticed.
There is little reason to point this out to you, because you are ignorant of it even when it's in your hand every day.
Did you even READ the article? Well of course not, this is slashdot and you are a reactionary moron with a political agenda.
The guy ran a company that went bankrupt. In the process of running this company is falsified return numbers and lied to investors. He then went on to do a full on ponzi scheme where he brought in new investors to pay off previous investors while lying about what he did the entire time. Then he joined a pharmaceutical company (not his current employer) and proceeded to steal money from them to pay off investors from the failed company.
This former employer has sued him in court and laid out in gory details the entire ponzi scheme, his theft and lies to all the people involved and his eventual embezzlement from them. The feds then began an investigation based on the lawsuit. This all started MONTHS before the whole scandal with trying to fuck children and aids patients out of $80K a month.
Everything he did is not one bit different that what Bernie Madoff did. This guy is a complete and total asshole who should be in jail for a VERY long time.
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The NSA spies on everyone. They operate pretty much independently of the executive and legislative branches. Their leaders though technically serve the president they are often independent in the sense that the occupant tends to survive presidential replacement and their leadership comes from the military. For some reason the political leadership tends to view them as an extension of the military and thus "above politics".
The fact that neither the legislature or president are bothered by the NSA spying on them all should scare the bejesus out of everyone.
They couldn't effectively ban them from setting up their own websites, what he's saying and is his major point is that the major internet companies, google, facebook, twitter, et all could effectively remove them from the internet by blocking their use of their resources.
ISIS entire recruiting effort is via facebook and twitter. Take away those two resources and you'd effectively handicap them. They realize this, when Twitter discussed shutting them down ISIS publicly threatened their executive staff with murder. That is how much ISIS fears having western internet access terminated. It's funny actually how dependent they are on Western companies they would happily destroy if they controlled them.
I don't think your average ABP user has any problem with ads in general. They do have a problem with the type of ads being produced right now. I would happily turn off ad blocking if I was guaranteed that there would be a limit to the number of ads per page (say top and bottom of page occupying less than 1/8th of total screen area at a time), they would be unobtrusive, would not contain auto-play video and were 100% guaranteed (with payment if not) that they did not contain malware. I don't even have a problem with video ads as long as they don't download and play automatically and are skip-able/stopable when you accidentally click them.
The ad industry abuses created ABP and popularized it. The fact that even the top ad companies push malware infected ad's through their systems is perfect evidence that all ad's should be blocked until the industry realizes it's mistakes and fixes them. The people viewing the page are the customer, and their satisfaction with the experience it was drives their presence. The ad companies still think they are the customer. There isn't an ad company I'm aware of that lets websites pre-screen and select ads and they don't even realize how badly that hurts them.
Very few websites produce original content. Most by a Reuters license then post the same new cycle that every other Reuters subscriber has access too. Then they all want to make boatloads of ad money on this same content.
Websites producing original content can make money, they can do so because they can charge a premium for ads and place steep restrictions on those ads so that viewers won't be compelled to block the ads. The problem is the content producers are used to working for the ad companies, not working for the viewer. The online industry has changed the model, the viewer is now the customer, not the ad company and the ones that are having problems with ABP and others are because they still think the ad company is the customer and do whatever the ad company wants.
If these sites were simply to acknowledge that the real customer here paying the bills is the eyeballs on the content and the ad companies are paying for access to those eyeballs they could greatly improve their revenue and business model. But that would mean they have to vet the ads, ensure they are unobtrusive and not annoying. This is a problem for the ad industry because they truly believe that only by being annoying can they be seen. Solutions like ABP are going to teach them this lesson, it's the reason they have been trying to get legislation passed making ad blocking illegal.
Game designers design for the lowest common denominator. This memory advance will be irrelevant until it's in 50% of the GPU's out there. This has been true for years and will remain true for years to come. No sane game developer would target the performance of a card that 90% of GPU's can't support.
Lead transfer to water from copper piping with lead based solder is negligible, even in stagnant water conditions. Lead piping on the other hand sees very little transfer only if the water is moving fairly rapidly, any stagnant water sitting in the lead pipes will pick up massive amounts of lead. All lead piping should be removed. Lead solder on the other hand is not a significant enough risk to require large capital investments to remove it, though if work is being done lead based solder should not be used.
Question: Research candidate using Cannabis sees drop in IQ and motivation. Is the cannabis use the cause?
This mistake is likely to set the research back a decade or more and there is precedent to back that. A while ago at the forefront of using modified viruses to alter gene's in patients an early experiment was conducted on a live human and ended up killing them. The researchers were careless but the field was ripe for some major discoveries and held the promise of being able to rewrite people's existing genetics to fix problems and possibly even extend life, the trick is controlling the bodies own immune system while the virus is active. The possibilities with this research were nearly endless.
This was easily one of the most promising fields in trans-genetics, if they can control the immune response. Almost overnight after the death the government regulators in most of the western countries shut down almost all the research in the field including even the animal models. It still hasn't recovered and may never recover.
I would wager this death and sickening of multiple people will do significant damage to the CBD research.
That's what preview is for. A timed edit doesn't help anything other than those who are in such a hurry to reply they don't actually read their post in the preview pane. And someone that careless should be allowed to demonstrate it.
No it doesn't. Gnome depends on a kernel feature, not systemd.
Nothing should be illegal that doesn't impinge on the rights of another person. Your reasoning is the reasoning behind the war on drugs.
They can already see that information with DPI (Deep packet inspection) and many already do monetize it.
PPM requires a defined volume of air and to do that one of the things that matters is the amount of diesels in an area and how closely spaced they are. That makes the measurement an entirely location dependent measurement if there aren't standard air volumes, number of vehicles, spacing and run time defined. This is the reason it's defined in the mass/distance method.
One other thing you should consider, the particulate emissions are some of the worst possible. The research on this is very new but medicine has been learning that the particulate emissions are cancer causers, mesothelioma in particular (the same one as asbestos). The most recent research is indicating that there is no safe level for these emissions and that diesels should probably be banned outright if they can't completely filter them. The initial research on this is the primary reason the emissions limit was set so low to begin with. VW killed people by lying about this. The ironic thing is VW is going to face lawsuits for the next 100 years from everyone that gets cancer or other lung problems trying to tie their problems to VW's lies.
The BP oil spill didn't kill a single person that I'm aware of.
The VW emissions will. The 5-12micron particles diesels emit kill people. They cause mesothelioma, the same cancer that asbestos does. Government sets a limit on these emissions that draws on a benefit/cost ratio on the number of people the emissions will kill, any increase in emissions above that rate will kill additional people and the kill rate is exponential with the increase.
No this probably isn't a eco disaster because the only thing it's likely to significantly hurt are people breathing those emissions but don't downplay the severity here. VW killed people by lying and that will be cold comfort to the person that ends up with untreatable lung cancer.
Yea I saw the study after posting. It required covering every square inch of the Sahara with solar farm which resulted in the 2 degree drop. That many solar panels generated 600 TW, total worldwide consumption right now is 1.5TW. Covering all of the Egyptian desert with solar panels generates 60 TW and it's local climate change was minuscule. We cannot alter the climate without the massive building I mentioned. We have no need for 600 TW right now so no one is going to do it.
The fact is if we put solar panels on the roofs of every building we'd have more power than we could consume, far more than enough in fact but it requires storage for such a thing to be viable. I believe the future of energy is going to be a mix of solar and wind primary while preserving much of the existing hydro. What they are finding with the wind and solar farms in west texas is that when the sun isn't shining the wind is blowing. The result is a balanced mix of solar and wind could provide 99% of the power you'd need, throw in some geothermal or gas turbines and you wouldn't need any other source of power.
Until there is research indicating otherwise I would not believe humans could either draw enough energy out of the wind, nor install enough solar panels to change the climate one bit. I would be surprised if you could measure a change of 1mph (or kph if you prefer) from one end of a wind farm to the other.
To effect the climate in this way would require MASSIVE construction. You'd need wind turbines literally covering an entire area with hundreds of thousands very closely spaced to appreciably alter wind patterns. And though this would alter the speed I sincerely doubt it would alter the pattern of wind appreciably. Wind is generated (primarily) by thermal differences in the atmosphere combined with rotation of the planet. To halt the wind patterns you'd have to change temperatures of areas, such as warming the pole's to the same temperature as the equator.
One of the fears with climate change is that changing sea ice patterns will alter sea currents that keep the poles warmer than they would otherwise be. Though I will concede there is always unknowns I will point to the cities we've built of concrete and glass. They have caused significant local climate changes (the heat island effect) yet have had no appreciable impact on regional or global albedo, and cities comprise the largest of all human constructions. We'd need more solar or wind turbines than we have buildings, roads and infrastructure and even then I doubt it would have an appreciable impact.
These fears are unfounded, IMO the only way humans could significantly affect this planet is through literally massive projects we simply don't have the will to build or through the current method being used which is to alter the composition of the atmosphere.
The Carlsbad facility has been in profitable operation for near on 30 years. They've never had an accident that I'm aware of, they produce power with no inputs other than sunlight and water and output power and water.
The technology is mature, effective and economical. The only thing that has kept solar thermal back is that fossil fuels have been cheaper and the significant land required for a solar thermal plant. Where fossil fuels to bear their real costs to both environment and in the case of oil the defense costs the US spends to keep the gulf production flowing solar thermal would probably be the most cost effective solution in the world. A whole bunch of plants were permitted when oil prices went up and they were all delayed when gas prices cratered.
You clearly have no idea how effective and economical the technology is. You are probably also one of those morons that thinks residential solar PV is uneconomical when it has an ROI of three years.
Persecution by private citizens isn't illegal nor should it be.
What's most ironic about people like you that spout this SJW label is that you want the same speech restrictions as the people you criticize, just for different reasons and on different people.
Free speech protects you from GOVERNMENT, the people with the guns and locked rooms that can put you in a room and keep you there with no human contact until you go crazy. Social consequences for speech are SPEECH. They might not be fair and you don't have to agree with them but the simple reality is that they are social consequences and they are characterized by more speech.
I certainly don't think it's fair to get someone fired for something they said but all along that path is simply people speaking and people speaking in reaction to the speech through both action and speech. In a country with free speech you need to understand that though the speech is free that doesn't mean its free of consequences from anyone but the government. And speaking unpopular things will have social consequences.
Any law that tries to limit social consequences from speech WILL limit speech and you are on the side for limited speech. The very thing you are railing against and asking for restrictions on is the very same thing as hate speech restrictions and blasphemy laws and they all lead the same place. Don't be anti-speech.
You might never give up but you will surrender to torture. Everyone does.
The soldiers tortured during Vietnam without exception gave the Vietnamese torturers what they were asking for. They also gave them a pound of garbage for every real thing they gave them, because that's what torture does, forces the torturee to provide invalid and garbage intelligence to make the torture stop and it's the reason there is little to no point in doing it.
There is no dishonor is surrendering to torture or other forms of abuse.
Others have already pointed out that said message is posted with a domain name that isn't known to be associated to him and is designed to look like it is his normal domain (imurdock versus ianmurdock) and which doesn't match any of his previous twitter posts.
This makes the messages entirely of suspicious origin.
I'm sure Italy's tax bureau works much like the IRS. When the IRS thinks you have cheated on your taxes or you haven't filed returns, what they do is take your income and multiply it by the tax rate. No deductions are included and all penalties and interest are calculated on this amount. But if you begin negotiations to pay the bill with the IRS they will often let you file actual returns that included deductions. These deductions significantly reduce owed taxes. In addition on large negotiated settlements like this they will often waive the penalties and normalize the interest to the actual taxes owed.
Given those constraints it wouldn't be unusual for the 318 million euro's to be the actual taxes and interest that is owed. Penalties are there to force compliance, tax agencies rarely collect them when someone negotiates. And outside a court case where the plaintiff refuses to cooperate the tax agencies rarely take more than they are actually owed. Keep in mind interest rates since 2008 have been near zero so interest on the debt will be very small.
Most German cars are frequently in the shop. The German manufacturers have cultivated this myth about their engineering but in reality the cars they make are actually on the very low end of the reliability ratings. I inherited a Golf, it was a fun car to drive, very nice interior, but the power steering went out at 50k miles and it was a $1200 repair. This along with a long line of mechanical problems.
I won't ever buy a VW because of that experience. They are overpriced junk that even Chevy beats in reliability.
Are you so oblivious that you haven't noticed the batteries in your devices getting more and more powerful for the same weight and size? Every year they squeeze more and more out of the batteries and you've been ignoring it the whole time. Years of these breakthroughs dramatically improving the batteries you use every day and you haven't even noticed.
There is little reason to point this out to you, because you are ignorant of it even when it's in your hand every day.
Did you even READ the article? Well of course not, this is slashdot and you are a reactionary moron with a political agenda.
The guy ran a company that went bankrupt. In the process of running this company is falsified return numbers and lied to investors. He then went on to do a full on ponzi scheme where he brought in new investors to pay off previous investors while lying about what he did the entire time. Then he joined a pharmaceutical company (not his current employer) and proceeded to steal money from them to pay off investors from the failed company.
This former employer has sued him in court and laid out in gory details the entire ponzi scheme, his theft and lies to all the people involved and his eventual embezzlement from them. The feds then began an investigation based on the lawsuit. This all started MONTHS before the whole scandal with trying to fuck children and aids patients out of $80K a month.
Everything he did is not one bit different that what Bernie Madoff did. This guy is a complete and total asshole who should be in jail for a VERY long time.
Yea I misspoke, sorry you are so butt hurt about it.
He's a bigot, not a racist for this particular incident. That make your butt hurt go away?