Absolutely, and we have to stop reacting with words like "fix" "flaw" and "problematic". This was a serious privacy intrusion on a massive scale. Whether it was some guy up to late on a bad schedule set by his boss Dilbert really doesn't matter. HP published the stuff, Connexant wrote it, they should pay some kind of price.
No, apple gave education a 30% discount (better in some cases) on hardware. They didn't suggest curriculum or standards, nobody came out to your school to say this kid needs such and so, it was just a huge no strings attached gift of hardware. (my experience circa the mid 80's at Bellevue Community College, buying for the student paper)
May not be the thing to say on slashdot but technolody does not -solve- crimes. Human investigators may use tools to help solve crimes but ultimately it is people who solve crime. Not a small distinction.
WASPC is known in Washington for also supporting every nutty gun control proposal to get dropped in the bin. For those who don't see the (it's freedom) parallel they also were okey dokey when the BATF was keeping background check information on gun buyers in the 80's. BATF did this for years, while federal legislator after legislator declared the action a violation of the background check law (in peasant speak this means a CRIME). BATF kept doing that until Congres threatened to defund them. Suddenly they found the reference to "30 day limit" in the law and started destroying these "backup" records as they'd always been required to do. These are not the everyday cop on the street but the (often appointed) top of the command chain. This particular velvet glove on the iron hand is beginning to chafe a bit.
Seriously, get more information. From the problem described here and the information provided you've narrowed your options far to rapidly. It's good you're asking questions, but no single item is the "magic bullet". Cameras, dogs, alarms are all among the many options you can learn about in one of these classes: https://www.nrahq.org/rtbav/schedule.asp and, from the organization that's been doing this for 200 years, most often this particular class is free (or very low cost).
Sorry "confused" are you arguing that RealID is -good-?
"That's all? There a easy, cheap, low tech solution to that problem, just get a carrying case with a little meta. It might even be enough if you cut you a beer can twice the size of a credit card fold it around your card."
You don't see that as a -benefit- of this system, do you? It would benefit my grandmother to wrap a snipped up old beer can around her ID?
It's called -"markets"-... it may seem a small nit but markets exist whether or not your economy is capitalist. The title on this fine article couldn't be whinier or more wrong. People aren't priced off roads any more then I'm priced out of tomatoes in winter, they're priced into more efficient alternatives. The beauty of markets is that they allow consumers to be the most efficient "decider". Really, they admit that consumers ARE their own best "deciders". Not government. Congestion pricing makes sense, it takes normal price/supply/demand features of the market to transportation. This will help fund critically needed transportation where I live in Washington and if more people get on the bus it will have immediate impact on traffic (even before add'l critical lane space is built). bk425
"Mounting your political message online is also safer in countries where taking part in a protest can result in your death or injury"
There are people around the world (rhymes with CHINA) who will never see the light of day again, because words they posted on the internet were traced to them. The mode of protest is not as important as that it gets done.
Yes, I've made two embarrassing math errors here because I have to much non slashdot work to do (hate how life gets in the way of internet forums...). And you've sidestepped any conceptual argument I've made. I'll stop distracting myself with slashdot and you with my math errors and declare you the winner. Have fun bk425
By "on the road" I -meant- the production hybrid in actual use. Talk to a prius owner. Some will get slightly better then 30 and some slightly less. The 40mpg rating is not seen in normal urban driving. Either way, you are picking nits and avoiding my point about the physics of moving mass. Three or four -times- the efficiency is a -huge- claim in a market where good improvements have been made in the last 20 years at 10 or 20 percent at a time. A 300% claim warrants reasoned critical thinking, and it's been my experience (as was originally my point) that people involved in this stuff become almost hostile when you bring up points like the added weight of the ice and my other points that you sidestepped here. I'm not deriding the technology or saying that it should not be encouraged, clearly the market wants these improvements and so do I. But it's not to much to ask that we approach something like this with the reason we would bring to any other social issue that we consider -important-. Not to much to ask, but I'm learning that asking isn't always rewarded. No problemo
Hyperbole on slashdot, what -was- I thinking. Many apologies.
Clearly 300 mpg is "only" one hundred times what is normally achieved with the most advanced hybrid system on the road. Only. Now about that 100mpg claim for plug in hybrids, you see -no- "hyperbole" there? Why would a plug in hybrid use less energy then a hybrid? Same drivetrain, same weight, I think anyone willing to discuss the basic physics of moving mass around can see that moving a prius with a plug isn't using any less energy then moving a prius without a plug. In fact compared to the EVs you cite these cars lug around an internal cumbustion engine whose mass would dictate a higher energy requirement (then without the ICEs add'l mass). These numbers that sites like greencars, and many owners of modified hybrids banter around simply -omit- the energy put into the system through the plug. They get '100mpg' if you ignore the mains power stored (and it's related pollution) and only count the gas used by the onboard ICE. (Hence my label "delusion".)
As for the "no pollution from running", If "while running" appears in http://www.gizmag.com/go/7000/ please point out where. This claim is exactly like the (to borrow a phrase) hyperbole regarding efficiency. No significant number of people in the world have entirely clean energy, when you plug in to the mains in the US you're creating a mix of Coal particulate, nuclear waste and flooded basins just like every other use of electricity. Note that I didn't say it's worse then my grandmas Olds 88, I'm saying that it is not whats claimed. So yeah the hyperbole bug seems to be goin' around. I'll end it in my life if you can work on yours.
"Burning fossil fuels in a power plant is generally more efficient and cleaner than burning them in a small, light mobile engine. So it reduces pollution that way."
They don't claim a reduction in pollution, they claim no pollution. Same with efficiency, they're not claiming some marginal increase in mpg but a whopping 300mpg. You would not -believe- the hostility I got in a local news forum when I suggested that the claims for 100 mpg and up for plug in hybrids needed some thought. People essentially popped out of the wood work and declared me a schill for big oil and heinous murderer of small fuzzy animals. We need to actually improve transportation. Delusions about cars that don't pollute and get orders of magnitude higher efficiency then anything else on the planet aren't going to get that improvement. Idiocy is a far bigger impediment to progress then "big oil" imho.
And for the record I am not a schill for anybody. bk425
Jintaos "sole authority" possesses double digit GDP growth and one of the largest populations on earth. Ultimately wether his "grandeur" is delusional or not will depend imho on the Chinese economy. Personally... while I consider myself a US patriot (ducking), -my- 401k has some international picks in it.
"On a personal level, I really can't stand some of the people I work with. Bottom line is though, that has just about zero impact on how they do their jobs."
There's a difference between being socially popular and social. People who "work in another world" to the point that they can't display normal social skills damage business by failing to communicate with the other people in the business. And that's very seldom (in my experience) the only symptom for folks with the kind of social issues you describe. Focus on code for two days, that's great. (If you can do that while depriving your mind of nutrition and sleep then... think what you might do while feeding yourself.) Liking someone, or wether or not their boss can "stand" them has nothing to with it, I agree. But basic social ability like the willingness to nod when someone says hi in the hallway has a LOT more importance to business then just being able to nod when someone says hi in the hallway. MHgeeksO
"If you're willing to buy into the commercial vision, then you start to think that everyone but you is living like that, and then you start to wonder how you can get to that point. When you start to think that you can't, you get angry." I'd be surprised if most people do. To the extent that advertising leaks through my efforts to avoid it, I would no more want the piles of glitzy crap that I see "people" there enslaving themselves to then I would ask for a red hot poker in my eye. Which is okay, because those actors aren't portraying real life. Also, folks who do that are imho taxing themselves, it's kinda like the SUV craze, that happened (IMO) because people wanted SUVs. Those people paid a "tax" in the form of higher then normal profits to the carmakers. Thats true of most "premium" products. They are more profitable for producers so they employ more people and or ripple more money out into the economy. People should buy what they want, no always "the best" or what the advertiser says to buy imho.
I agree that elevators should be our focus. But we don't have to stop manned flight to do that. If our "leaders" got behind the research needed here then parallel efforts at unmanned probes, keeping the ISS up and taking the good research already done into elevators and extending it could all be done. But we have to explain that "mankind needs this" for reasons a-z. We need fewer BBall stars and more -leaders- getting kids into science classes and research companies working together on carbon tethers and anchor points. A lot of the work has been done, maybe part of the problem is that we don't recognize the people already involved. http://tinyurl.com/y9d3km
As a customer I personally -really- dislike contact forms. I communicate in email, email is made for referable rapid communication, having it run off track with somebodies idea of html. Also, I know standard address formats. I know my legislators are firstname.lastname@leg.wa.gov and that DNS and SMTP protcols were written with "hostmaster@..." and "abuse@..." written in to them. We need to come up with some more systematic answer to the problem of spam and I hope it doesn't inolve "contact forms".
Glad to see this here. The iPod is a -symbol- of convenience (yes and user experience and sound and sadly fashion...) the description of how "trivial" it is to convert an iTune to mp3 in the FA was just farcical on a whole lot of levels.
This really is the obvious answer. If you want good connection, pay for it. If you're not paying for it then it's not your connection. You only get to set use policies on your connection.
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Absolutely, and we have to stop reacting with words like "fix" "flaw" and "problematic". This was a serious privacy intrusion on a massive scale. Whether it was some guy up to late on a bad schedule set by his boss Dilbert really doesn't matter. HP published the stuff, Connexant wrote it, they should pay some kind of price.
No, apple gave education a 30% discount (better in some cases) on hardware. They didn't suggest curriculum or standards, nobody came out to your school to say this kid needs such and so, it was just a huge no strings attached gift of hardware. (my experience circa the mid 80's at Bellevue Community College, buying for the student paper)
The headline is 37% of MS servers on ships, the lead is about Port IT systems. These are of course very different things.
Yes, and a jetpack in every domehome.
"all but one of the top 50 largest financial institutions in the country."... Bernie? oh wait, Mr Picards IM'ing me...
May not be the thing to say on slashdot but technolody does not -solve- crimes. Human investigators may use tools to help solve crimes but ultimately it is people who solve crime. Not a small distinction.
WASPC is known in Washington for also supporting every nutty gun control proposal to get dropped in the bin. For those who don't see the (it's freedom) parallel they also were okey dokey when the BATF was keeping background check information on gun buyers in the 80's. BATF did this for years, while federal legislator after legislator declared the action a violation of the background check law (in peasant speak this means a CRIME). BATF kept doing that until Congres threatened to defund them. Suddenly they found the reference to "30 day limit" in the law and started destroying these "backup" records as they'd always been required to do. These are not the everyday cop on the street but the (often appointed) top of the command chain. This particular velvet glove on the iron hand is beginning to chafe a bit.
Yes, easily as disturbing as a title that assumes only a sniper would be interested in ballistics.
Western digital combo.
Seriously, get more information.
From the problem described here and the information provided you've narrowed your options far to rapidly. It's good you're asking questions, but no single item is the "magic bullet". Cameras, dogs, alarms are all among the many options you can learn about in one of these classes:
https://www.nrahq.org/rtbav/schedule.asp
and, from the organization that's been doing this for 200 years, most often this particular class is free (or very low cost).
Sorry "confused" are you arguing that RealID is -good-?
"That's all? There a easy, cheap, low tech solution to that problem, just get a carrying case with a little meta. It might even be enough if you cut you a beer can twice the size of a credit card fold it around your card."
You don't see that as a -benefit- of this system, do you? It would benefit my grandmother to wrap a snipped up old beer can around her ID?
It's called -"markets"-... it may seem a small nit but markets exist whether or not your economy is capitalist. The title on this fine article couldn't be whinier or more wrong. People aren't priced off roads any more then I'm priced out of tomatoes in winter, they're priced into more efficient alternatives. The beauty of markets is that they allow consumers to be the most efficient "decider". Really, they admit that consumers ARE their own best "deciders". Not government. Congestion pricing makes sense, it takes normal price/supply/demand features of the market to transportation. This will help fund critically needed transportation where I live in Washington and if more people get on the bus it will have immediate impact on traffic (even before add'l critical lane space is built). bk425
"Mounting your political message online is also safer in countries where taking part in a protest can result in your death or injury"
There are people around the world (rhymes with CHINA) who will never see the light of day again, because words they posted on the internet were traced to them. The mode of protest is not as important as that it gets done.
Yes, I've made two embarrassing math errors here because I have to much non slashdot work to do (hate how life gets in the way of internet forums...). And you've sidestepped any conceptual argument I've made. I'll stop distracting myself with slashdot and you with my math errors and declare you the winner. Have fun bk425
By "on the road" I -meant- the production hybrid in actual use. Talk to a prius owner. Some will get slightly better then 30 and some slightly less. The 40mpg rating is not seen in normal urban driving. Either way, you are picking nits and avoiding my point about the physics of moving mass. Three or four -times- the efficiency is a -huge- claim in a market where good improvements have been made in the last 20 years at 10 or 20 percent at a time. A 300% claim warrants reasoned critical thinking, and it's been my experience (as was originally my point) that people involved in this stuff become almost hostile when you bring up points like the added weight of the ice and my other points that you sidestepped here.
I'm not deriding the technology or saying that it should not be encouraged, clearly the market wants these improvements and so do I. But it's not to much to ask that we approach something like this with the reason we would bring to any other social issue that we consider -important-. Not to much to ask, but I'm learning that asking isn't always rewarded. No problemo
Hyperbole on slashdot, what -was- I thinking. Many apologies.
Clearly 300 mpg is "only" one hundred times what is normally achieved with the most advanced hybrid system on the road. Only.
Now about that 100mpg claim for plug in hybrids, you see -no- "hyperbole" there? Why would a plug in hybrid use less energy then a hybrid? Same drivetrain, same weight, I think anyone willing to discuss the basic physics of moving mass around can see that moving a prius with a plug isn't using any less energy then moving a prius without a plug. In fact compared to the EVs you cite these cars lug around an internal cumbustion engine whose mass would dictate a higher energy requirement (then without the ICEs add'l mass). These numbers that sites like greencars, and many owners of modified hybrids banter around simply -omit- the energy put into the system through the plug. They get '100mpg' if you ignore the mains power stored (and it's related pollution) and only count the gas used by the onboard ICE. (Hence my label "delusion".)
As for the "no pollution from running", If "while running" appears in http://www.gizmag.com/go/7000/ please point out where. This claim is exactly like the (to borrow a phrase) hyperbole regarding efficiency. No significant number of people in the world have entirely clean energy, when you plug in to the mains in the US you're creating a mix of Coal particulate, nuclear waste and flooded basins just like every other use of electricity. Note that I didn't say it's worse then my grandmas Olds 88, I'm saying that it is not whats claimed. So yeah the hyperbole bug seems to be goin' around. I'll end it in my life if you can work on yours.
"Burning fossil fuels in a power plant is generally more efficient and cleaner than burning them in a small, light mobile engine. So it reduces pollution that way."
They don't claim a reduction in pollution, they claim no pollution. Same with efficiency, they're not claiming some marginal increase in mpg but a whopping 300mpg. You would not -believe- the hostility I got in a local news forum when I suggested that the claims for 100 mpg and up for plug in hybrids needed some thought. People essentially popped out of the wood work and declared me a schill for big oil and heinous murderer of small fuzzy animals. We need to actually improve transportation. Delusions about cars that don't pollute and get orders of magnitude higher efficiency then anything else on the planet aren't going to get that improvement. Idiocy is a far bigger impediment to progress then "big oil" imho.
And for the record I am not a schill for anybody. bk425
Great, this thread was funny until I read this. I'd been assuming the originator was trying to be funny.
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Jintaos "sole authority" possesses double digit GDP growth and one of the largest populations on earth. Ultimately wether his "grandeur" is delusional or not will depend imho on the Chinese economy. Personally... while I consider myself a US patriot (ducking), -my- 401k has some international picks in it.
"On a personal level, I really can't stand some of the people I work with. Bottom line is though, that has just about zero impact on how they do their jobs."
There's a difference between being socially popular and social.
People who "work in another world" to the point that they can't display normal social skills damage business by failing to communicate with the other people in the business. And that's very seldom (in my experience) the only symptom for folks with the kind of social issues you describe.
Focus on code for two days, that's great. (If you can do that while depriving your mind of nutrition and sleep then... think what you might do while feeding yourself.) Liking someone, or wether or not their boss can "stand" them has nothing to with it, I agree. But basic social ability like the willingness to nod when someone says hi in the hallway has a LOT more importance to business then just being able to nod when someone says hi in the hallway. MHgeeksO
"If you're willing to buy into the commercial vision, then you start to think that everyone but you is living like that, and then you start to wonder how you can get to that point. When you start to think that you can't, you get angry."
I'd be surprised if most people do. To the extent that advertising leaks through my efforts to avoid it, I would no more want the piles of glitzy crap that I see "people" there enslaving themselves to then I would ask for a red hot poker in my eye. Which is okay, because those actors aren't portraying real life. Also, folks who do that are imho taxing themselves, it's kinda like the SUV craze, that happened (IMO) because people wanted SUVs. Those people paid a "tax" in the form of higher then normal profits to the carmakers. Thats true of most "premium" products. They are more profitable for producers so they employ more people and or ripple more money out into the economy. People should buy what they want, no always "the best" or what the advertiser says to buy imho.
I agree that elevators should be our focus. But we don't have to stop manned flight to do that. If our "leaders" got behind the research needed here then parallel efforts at unmanned probes, keeping the ISS up and taking the good research already done into elevators and extending it could all be done. But we have to explain that "mankind needs this" for reasons a-z. We need fewer BBall stars and more -leaders- getting kids into science classes and research companies working together on carbon tethers and anchor points. A lot of the work has been done, maybe part of the problem is that we don't recognize the people already involved.
http://tinyurl.com/y9d3km
As a customer I personally -really- dislike contact forms. I communicate in email, email is made for referable rapid communication, having it run off track with somebodies idea of html. Also, I know standard address formats. I know my legislators are firstname.lastname@leg.wa.gov and that DNS and SMTP protcols were written with "hostmaster@..." and "abuse@..." written in to them. We need to come up with some more systematic answer to the problem of spam and I hope it doesn't inolve "contact forms".
Glad to see this here. The iPod is a -symbol- of convenience (yes and user experience and sound and sadly fashion...) the description of how "trivial" it is to convert an iTune to mp3 in the FA was just farcical on a whole lot of levels.
This really is the obvious answer. If you want good connection, pay for it. If you're not paying for it then it's not your connection. You only get to set use policies on your connection.