Cigarette smoking is a choice. (For those of us in the US) Our nation fought to protect our freedoms as well as freedom in Europe and in pacific rim, and smoking choices naturally come out of that. If free people want to smoke so be it - that is what my dad fought for in WWII.
Smoking, freedom & military service are linked, even if you don't think so.
Wondering how the curves look if you included on-line time. Then of course one has to wonder if FTF friend is same as Facebook friend? And if alone on computer is the same is just alone?
I overhear my son gaming with his friends and he is yelling in headset at the screen. Sometime it reminds me of my grandfather yelling at the TV when I was a kid.
People from Western countries have absolutely no idea that someone from a tribal culture that has had democracy somehow foisted on them simply cannot vote for someone who is not from their tribe....
I was a google explorer (a beta tester but I paid for the glasses myself so i have direct and expensive experience). If you did something intensive like have an image looked up for a reference, it did so by sending the image to your coupled phone, had your phone look it up; then your phone sent back the data, and it would process the data and overlay it onto your view...
Yes, that took as long as it sounds, was as buggy as it sounds, and killed battery as much as you would guess. Oh, and they got hot if you were really taxing them like that.
It flows with zero viscosity onto every nearby surface while at the same time phase-shifting to a solid form that takes 3 days to wear off of your fingers.
And about the time some scientist figures out how to combine it with glitter and those little prickly-pear thorns, we'll need to re-write the standard model to allow for what may turn out to be the most annoying substance known to man.
this could be the "grey goo" everyone used to worry about. Would be great sic-fi it the goo teaches the matter around it to also become goo.
This is about the third or forth slashdot story I've seen that was covered in a "Black Mirror" episode. Now I am really worried about the one with the politician and the pig...
Glad I'm over 50 and know what life was before interwebz. Still do. Its grand. Not being tethered to a communication device, coming and going wherever and whenever I want. You poor, POOR, self-imposed attention-deprived kids. Your life, your childrens, and theirs will never know the freedom mankind has enjoyed for the last 100,000+ years. I pity you. Truly.
I've seen my kids playing cards with their friends (and we didn't make them do it); so I say all is not lost.
“I can’t think of another company in a stronger position to be the leader for this new ecosystem and make the urban electric VTOL market real,” he says.
That's because of Uber's strong engineering track record, civic integration, and long history of co-operation with governmental agencies.
Taxis and hotels have become too expensive and a pain to use. Just like cable companies, they have a monopoly so service is lousy, too expensive, and they could care less. Alternatives are starting to wake them up, but rather than compete better, they use their protectionist schemes to chop back the competition.
It's more like: people tend to do the same workout routine. Measurement once is kinda fun/interesting, but after that is pretty useless. So when your friends ask you about it you're all "meh"
I am a father of 8, and I have plenty of anecdotal evidence that Hyland's teething tablets are effective, and I want to continue to use them for my baby....
It's the typical blather of the rich and shameless. All the bad things were just luck and all the good things were just their innate superior abilities and hard work.
Fact is, anyone can grab the brass ring if they can afford multiple tries, but most people are lucky if they can afford even a single try.
was a season 1 or season 2; episode where people are only pawns for game shows, they must use points to pay for opting out of total network intrusion into their lives. But without the points, there is no escape from a pawn existence.
There is a lot of truth in this trolling. Wolfram was supposed to be the new Einstein. He did work on cellular automata that, while competent, it is not beyond what a competent graduate student would do. He moved into the computer algebra world, lifting ideas and thousands of lines of code from already existing system. His impact on science and mathematics has been negligible. The guy has been good at sucking the money in his company, blowing his own trumpet hard, and little else. He commands no respect whatsoever in the scientific community, who regard him as a useless gadfly.
Agree. I read "New kind of Science" thinking there would be some great insights. Nope. The guy did some interesting cellular automata bits, but nothing that deserved to be described as "New Science." He though that he was the only guy to see that dense complexity could arise from very simple instruction set. Guess he never heard of DNA.
... and if you RTFA you would see he was offered 100 hrs community service, but he declined. So he had a soft exit and passed on it. Dijon had back to back IS terrorist attack in 2014 with people run down in the street and knifed. No way they are going have a sense of humor about his cute WIFI name; Kid deserved what he got..
And I had been thinking that I should've waited for the new version. Now, I'm sad to say - I would not own this new version. Cannot stand that OLED bar, and no USB-A,HDMI, or MagSafe ports make it a pain in the ass to use for work.
Owner will be sued - yes it happened in Ca. A homeowner set a trap with a shotgun somehow aimed at the door to go off if someone broke in (guess he was sick of getting robbed, who knows). Anyway, of course someone breaks in, gets shot and sues. Legal theory is that you cannot set a trap, even if the perp sets it off by breaking the law. Homeowner lost the suit as I recall.
I've had a struggle with something really simple - deleting someone who's died from my contact list. As the years roll on we have more and more people we know die. I know that it's a silly thing but deleting them from my contact list is something I still can't do.
Slashdot Mirror
Cigarette smoking is a choice. (For those of us in the US) Our nation fought to protect our freedoms as well as freedom in Europe and in pacific rim, and smoking choices naturally come out of that. If free people want to smoke so be it - that is what my dad fought for in WWII.
Smoking, freedom & military service are linked, even if you don't think so.
Wondering how the curves look if you included on-line time. Then of course one has to wonder if FTF friend is same as Facebook friend? And if alone on computer is the same is just alone?
I overhear my son gaming with his friends and he is yelling in headset at the screen. Sometime it reminds me of my grandfather yelling at the TV when I was a kid.
the Stasi: "your papers, bitte"
People from Western countries have absolutely no idea that someone from a tribal culture that has had democracy somehow foisted on them simply cannot vote for someone who is not from their tribe. ...
So like democrats and republicans basically
well done sir, #2 is a winner
I was a google explorer (a beta tester but I paid for the glasses myself so i have direct and expensive experience). If you did something intensive like have an image looked up for a reference, it did so by sending the image to your coupled phone, had your phone look it up; then your phone sent back the data, and it would process the data and overlay it onto your view ...
Yes, that took as long as it sounds, was as buggy as it sounds, and killed battery as much as you would guess. Oh, and they got hot if you were really taxing them like that.
It flows with zero viscosity onto every nearby surface while at the same time phase-shifting to a solid form that takes 3 days to wear off of your fingers.
And about the time some scientist figures out how to combine it with glitter and those little prickly-pear thorns, we'll need to re-write the standard model to allow for what may turn out to be the most annoying substance known to man.
this could be the "grey goo" everyone used to worry about. Would be great sic-fi it the goo teaches the matter around it to also become goo.
nice, nice, very nice.
Important clarification, thank you.
This is about the third or forth slashdot story I've seen that was covered in a "Black Mirror" episode. Now I am really worried about the one with the politician and the pig ...
If the former then we already know who designed them...
We know that it wasn't Ian. He was given a napkin. Whether or not Nigel knew the difference between feet and inches was not his problem.
Glad I'm over 50 and know what life was before interwebz. Still do. Its grand. Not being tethered to a communication device, coming and going wherever and whenever I want. You poor, POOR, self-imposed attention-deprived kids. Your life, your childrens, and theirs will never know the freedom mankind has enjoyed for the last 100,000+ years. I pity you. Truly.
I've seen my kids playing cards with their friends (and we didn't make them do it); so I say all is not lost.
“I can’t think of another company in a stronger position to be the leader for this new ecosystem and make the urban electric VTOL market real,” he says.
That's because of Uber's strong engineering track record, civic integration, and long history of co-operation with governmental agencies.
Taxis and hotels have become too expensive and a pain to use. Just like cable companies, they have a monopoly so service is lousy, too expensive, and they could care less. Alternatives are starting to wake them up, but rather than compete better, they use their protectionist schemes to chop back the competition.
It's more like: people tend to do the same workout routine. Measurement once is kinda fun/interesting, but after that is pretty useless. So when your friends ask you about it you're all "meh"
I am a father of 8, and I have plenty of anecdotal evidence that Hyland's teething tablets are effective, and I want to continue to use them for my baby. ...
Um, shouldn't your focus be on contraceptives?
It's the typical blather of the rich and shameless. All the bad things were just luck and all the good things were just their innate superior abilities and hard work.
Fact is, anyone can grab the brass ring if they can afford multiple tries, but most people are lucky if they can afford even a single try.
Nicolas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness great book
Plus you can't mod a story that you've posted on, and you only can use one mod point on any particular post.
I wonder if Buffalo pollute as much as cows? I think we need a 5 year, 3.6 billion dollar study on this.
Eat them too; their wings are delicious.
"Black Mirror" - Netflix.
was a season 1 or season 2; episode where people are only pawns for game shows, they must use points to pay for opting out of total network intrusion into their lives. But without the points, there is no escape from a pawn existence.
There is a lot of truth in this trolling. Wolfram was supposed to be the new Einstein. He did work on cellular automata that, while competent, it is not beyond what a competent graduate student would do. He moved into the computer algebra world, lifting ideas and thousands of lines of code from already existing system. His impact on science and mathematics has been negligible. The guy has been good at sucking the money in his company, blowing his own trumpet hard, and little else. He commands no respect whatsoever in the scientific community, who regard him as a useless gadfly.
Agree. I read "New kind of Science" thinking there would be some great insights. Nope. The guy did some interesting cellular automata bits, but nothing that deserved to be described as "New Science." He though that he was the only guy to see that dense complexity could arise from very simple instruction set. Guess he never heard of DNA.
... and if you RTFA you would see he was offered 100 hrs community service, but he declined. So he had a soft exit and passed on it. Dijon had back to back IS terrorist attack in 2014 with people run down in the street and knifed. No way they are going have a sense of humor about his cute WIFI name; Kid deserved what he got..
And I had been thinking that I should've waited for the new version. Now, I'm sad to say - I would not own this new version. Cannot stand that OLED bar, and no USB-A ,HDMI, or MagSafe ports make it a pain in the ass to use for work.
Apple, you are better that this effort.
Owner will be sued - yes it happened in Ca. A homeowner set a trap with a shotgun somehow aimed at the door to go off if someone broke in (guess he was sick of getting robbed, who knows). Anyway, of course someone breaks in, gets shot and sues. Legal theory is that you cannot set a trap, even if the perp sets it off by breaking the law. Homeowner lost the suit as I recall.
I've had a struggle with something really simple - deleting someone who's died from my contact list. As the years roll on we have more and more people we know die. I know that it's a silly thing but deleting them from my contact list is something I still can't do.