The next time you see a homeless person, keep in mind that they might very well have been once like you, but reverses in life put them where they are now.
Sadly, it seems like that is one of the larger problems in the US these days: a lack of sympathy/empathy for other human beings.
This certainly seems like an overreaction given how many other foods contain acrylamide. On the other hand they could just be trying to force the industry to find a way to remove the chemical from food stuffs. Without regulation a profit maximizing corporation will almost never go out of its way to reduce negative environmental or health impacts of a product.
IIRC they were also originally focused on dark roasted coffee, which contains more acrylamide than other variants. Not sure if this ruling applies to all coffee or just dark roast.
Side note: I'm still waiting for them to go after sugar and it's link to heart disease. Get the popcorn ready for that one.
Also, the first link in the summary is paywalled and lacks the usual/. indicator of such.
Not that I've ever used it, but I thought that PGP stood for "Pretty Good Protection" - aka not uncrackable but enough to keep casual observers (like bored ISP admins) at bay.
1) How does this belong on slashdot?
2) Based on the site descriptions on google (I refuse to generate actual traffic to the linked site), it sounds like it's just some guy's rambling blog - not a reputable information source.
3) If the source site is just someone's blog, this being posted to/. seems like a lame attempt to generate traffic for the site that shouldn't have gotten past moderation.
4) People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones - iows someone completely suffocating inside their own bubble bitching about other peoples' bubbles is hardly news worthy.
Payments post marked today still count as being paid on time.
What I don't get is: Why are so many people so lazy about getting their taxes done? All the necessary paperwork should be in a person's hands by mid-February, that gives people two full months to get off their butts and get it done. If they wait till the last minute out of laziness, well, technical difficulties forcing them to go outside their comfort zone and actually mail a check is the price they may just have to pay.
It's quite common for web systems that work just fine under moderate load 364 days out of the year to fail under extreme loads that one day of the year when millions instead of thousands of people try to access it at the same time. Once upon a time it was called the slashdot effect.
Fortunately there are programs out there that make playing a blu-ray on a PC a hassle free experience. Unfortunately it's an additional investment of money that shouldn't be necessary and will probably remain a gray area in danger of vanishing someday if agencies like the MPAA get their way.
There's the problem. Don't store your only copy of expensive data on Someone Else's Computer aka The Cloud(tm). At least have a local backup.
It’s irrelevant whether we’re talking about something controversial, or photos from your kid’s christening - it’s simply stupid to keep your only copy on a cloud drive. You’ve got to have at least one backup that’s under your own control. More than one is even better.
Good advice for the ones that aren't technically savvy, problem is, these cloud services are advertised to individuals as if they are the only backup they need. So they end up duped into letting the cloud "protect" their precious data, then they find out that that data isn't their's anymore after they lose their original copy of it.
How fragile must these companies be if a gaming museum operating a private server on a closed network is a threat to their bottom line?
If the museum were operating a private server on the public internet and letting just anyone log in and play then maybe they'd have a valid argument.
Maybe these companies should just make a deal with the gaming museum's "Hey, want to host our old servers for us? You do all the support and pay for all the upkeep, and you can let however many people you want play on them provided you charge them a subscription fee and give us our cut. Oh, and you're not allowed to change any of the code or the assets (cause you're a museum and we're only giving you this 'deal' for the sake of historical preservation)."
Not changing anything seems to be the more sensible alternative.
The problem is that DST has been found to have negative side effects. From the forced shift of sleep schedule affecting peoples' health, to increased traffic incidents caused by weary motorists, to added weariness causing a drop in work performance. http://www.businessinsider.com...
Therefore, if DST has little to no positive benefits, then the negative ones make it sensible to spend some cost to abolish it so that we can get rid of the negative ones.
They're going to sell off everything owned by the Federal government to pay for their excessive tax cuts and military spending?
What happens when they run out buildings to sell, do they start selling off the paintings and plates in the White House? Are we going to end up with a big "For Rent" sign on the Washington and Lincoln monuments?
Geo-engineering projects often sound good on paper, but, who is on the line for damages if they screw up or have unintended consequences?
Case in point: https://www.theguardian.com/en...
"A controversial American businessman dumped around 100 tonnes of iron sulphate into the Pacific Ocean as part of a geoengineering scheme off the west coast of Canada in July (2012)" - The idea being that the algae absorbs carbon dioxide, eventually dies of, and that carbon sits trapped at the bottom of the ocean for centuries. Catch is, algae also consumes oxygen.
There's plenty of evidence today that Ocean Deoxygenation is a real problem and linked to algae blooms: https://www.newsdeeply.com/oceans/articles/2017/07/05/another-threat-to-the-ocean-deoxygenation
The NSA/CIA leaks have clearly shown that the US government knew about many hardware and software vulnerabilities and yet kept them under wraps so that they could exploit them for their own benefit. With that kind of history in play, how can you trust the US government to build, maintain, and oversee a national communications network through which all mobile communication will end up going through without spying on whoever they choose with no warrants or justification whatsoever?
Yeah, if they're going to break up some big companies they need to break up ALL big companies. Otherwise they're just picking apart the newer tech giants so that the older companies can swoop in and take over.
Sadly, some police offices already see crime as a source of revenue. They even have a name for it: Civil Asset Forfeiture. Get caught with an ounce of weed in your car by the wrong police department in the wrong state (even if that weed was legal in your home state and for medicinal purposes)? Good luck ever seeing your car again.
Now security is important. But, otoh, Intel has already manufactured a lot of these flawed chips. Following the news about these vulnerabilities the demand for these chips is going to drop. This should open up a window of opportunity to snap up these chips at some steeply discounted prices and use them for workloads and in environments where the chips' design flaw isn't going to be an issue (just avoid applying the mitigation patches that slow everything down).
Yeah, anywhere that uses these straight cost estimates are used tends to completely ignore the societal, environmental, and economic costs of the pollution that the rules and regulations were put in place to cut down on.
Even if we have enough oil reserves in the planet to last us until entire next millennium, if we keep polluting as we are currently we're not going to have a place left to live any more. If people want to keep using oil and gas, then find a way to obtain it, refine it, and use it without any pollution byproduct (which probably doesn't exist in any cost effective way. And no, "clean" coal's answer of scrubbing the pollution from the exhaust and shoving it into the ground isn't an acceptable answer. All that does is end up leeching the poison into the soil and water supplies instead of in the air. It's as bad as our continual lack of a permanent solution to nuclear waste.)
Censorship on privately owned web services is a completely separate issue from Net Neutrality. Net Neutrality's only purpose is to prevent ISPs - the gatekeepers of the internet - from deciding what content they are going to allow and how fast they're going to allow it to be.
If you want to talk about free speech on the internet, that's fine, and that's a discussion worth having, but that is not what Net Neutrality is about. Please don't confuse the issue.
There is no excuse for there being only a single Republican vote for this. Net Neutrality is a completely non-partisan issue with majority support from voters on both sides of the isle. Any politician that doesn't vote for it is complete scum and needs to be kicked out of office.
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The next time you see a homeless person, keep in mind that they might very well have been once like you, but reverses in life put them where they are now.
Sadly, it seems like that is one of the larger problems in the US these days: a lack of sympathy/empathy for other human beings.
This certainly seems like an overreaction given how many other foods contain acrylamide. On the other hand they could just be trying to force the industry to find a way to remove the chemical from food stuffs. Without regulation a profit maximizing corporation will almost never go out of its way to reduce negative environmental or health impacts of a product.
/. indicator of such.
IIRC they were also originally focused on dark roasted coffee, which contains more acrylamide than other variants. Not sure if this ruling applies to all coffee or just dark roast.
Side note: I'm still waiting for them to go after sugar and it's link to heart disease. Get the popcorn ready for that one.
Also, the first link in the summary is paywalled and lacks the usual
Not that I've ever used it, but I thought that PGP stood for "Pretty Good Protection" - aka not uncrackable but enough to keep casual observers (like bored ISP admins) at bay.
I was thinking much the same thing.
/. seems like a lame attempt to generate traffic for the site that shouldn't have gotten past moderation.
1) How does this belong on slashdot?
2) Based on the site descriptions on google (I refuse to generate actual traffic to the linked site), it sounds like it's just some guy's rambling blog - not a reputable information source.
3) If the source site is just someone's blog, this being posted to
4) People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones - iows someone completely suffocating inside their own bubble bitching about other peoples' bubbles is hardly news worthy.
There's a secondary problem in America though: short uncomfortable seat belts and large sized passengers.
What's worse: a paywalled site getting less traffic or a paywalled site getting adblocked traffic that blocks the poorly implemented paywall?
Payments post marked today still count as being paid on time.
What I don't get is: Why are so many people so lazy about getting their taxes done? All the necessary paperwork should be in a person's hands by mid-February, that gives people two full months to get off their butts and get it done. If they wait till the last minute out of laziness, well, technical difficulties forcing them to go outside their comfort zone and actually mail a check is the price they may just have to pay.
It's quite common for web systems that work just fine under moderate load 364 days out of the year to fail under extreme loads that one day of the year when millions instead of thousands of people try to access it at the same time. Once upon a time it was called the slashdot effect.
Fortunately there are programs out there that make playing a blu-ray on a PC a hassle free experience. Unfortunately it's an additional investment of money that shouldn't be necessary and will probably remain a gray area in danger of vanishing someday if agencies like the MPAA get their way.
There's the problem. Don't store your only copy of expensive data on Someone Else's Computer aka The Cloud(tm). At least have a local backup.
It’s irrelevant whether we’re talking about something controversial, or photos from your kid’s christening - it’s simply stupid to keep your only copy on a cloud drive. You’ve got to have at least one backup that’s under your own control. More than one is even better.
Good advice for the ones that aren't technically savvy, problem is, these cloud services are advertised to individuals as if they are the only backup they need. So they end up duped into letting the cloud "protect" their precious data, then they find out that that data isn't their's anymore after they lose their original copy of it.
"And letting everyone know that they should uninstall our app immediately if they don't like us stalking them"
How fragile must these companies be if a gaming museum operating a private server on a closed network is a threat to their bottom line?
If the museum were operating a private server on the public internet and letting just anyone log in and play then maybe they'd have a valid argument.
Maybe these companies should just make a deal with the gaming museum's "Hey, want to host our old servers for us? You do all the support and pay for all the upkeep, and you can let however many people you want play on them provided you charge them a subscription fee and give us our cut. Oh, and you're not allowed to change any of the code or the assets (cause you're a museum and we're only giving you this 'deal' for the sake of historical preservation)."
Ah, sorry, I misread
Not changing anything seems to be the more sensible alternative.
The problem is that DST has been found to have negative side effects. From the forced shift of sleep schedule affecting peoples' health, to increased traffic incidents caused by weary motorists, to added weariness causing a drop in work performance. http://www.businessinsider.com...
Therefore, if DST has little to no positive benefits, then the negative ones make it sensible to spend some cost to abolish it so that we can get rid of the negative ones.
They're going to sell off everything owned by the Federal government to pay for their excessive tax cuts and military spending?
What happens when they run out buildings to sell, do they start selling off the paintings and plates in the White House? Are we going to end up with a big "For Rent" sign on the Washington and Lincoln monuments?
because of the notch?
They may not have sexual reproduction to create new traits, but isn't the door still open for additional favorable mutations to occur and spread?
Geo-engineering projects often sound good on paper, but, who is on the line for damages if they screw up or have unintended consequences?
Case in point: https://www.theguardian.com/en... "A controversial American businessman dumped around 100 tonnes of iron sulphate into the Pacific Ocean as part of a geoengineering scheme off the west coast of Canada in July (2012)" - The idea being that the algae absorbs carbon dioxide, eventually dies of, and that carbon sits trapped at the bottom of the ocean for centuries. Catch is, algae also consumes oxygen.
There's plenty of evidence today that Ocean Deoxygenation is a real problem and linked to algae blooms:
https://www.newsdeeply.com/oceans/articles/2017/07/05/another-threat-to-the-ocean-deoxygenation
Do you trust the government?
The NSA/CIA leaks have clearly shown that the US government knew about many hardware and software vulnerabilities and yet kept them under wraps so that they could exploit them for their own benefit. With that kind of history in play, how can you trust the US government to build, maintain, and oversee a national communications network through which all mobile communication will end up going through without spying on whoever they choose with no warrants or justification whatsoever?
Yeah, if they're going to break up some big companies they need to break up ALL big companies. Otherwise they're just picking apart the newer tech giants so that the older companies can swoop in and take over.
And don't forget AT&T and Verizon.
Sadly, some police offices already see crime as a source of revenue. They even have a name for it: Civil Asset Forfeiture. Get caught with an ounce of weed in your car by the wrong police department in the wrong state (even if that weed was legal in your home state and for medicinal purposes)? Good luck ever seeing your car again.
Now security is important. But, otoh, Intel has already manufactured a lot of these flawed chips. Following the news about these vulnerabilities the demand for these chips is going to drop. This should open up a window of opportunity to snap up these chips at some steeply discounted prices and use them for workloads and in environments where the chips' design flaw isn't going to be an issue (just avoid applying the mitigation patches that slow everything down).
They probably got annoyed at people signing up for the monthly prime service in November/December, then canceling in late December/January.
Yeah, anywhere that uses these straight cost estimates are used tends to completely ignore the societal, environmental, and economic costs of the pollution that the rules and regulations were put in place to cut down on.
Even if we have enough oil reserves in the planet to last us until entire next millennium, if we keep polluting as we are currently we're not going to have a place left to live any more. If people want to keep using oil and gas, then find a way to obtain it, refine it, and use it without any pollution byproduct (which probably doesn't exist in any cost effective way. And no, "clean" coal's answer of scrubbing the pollution from the exhaust and shoving it into the ground isn't an acceptable answer. All that does is end up leeching the poison into the soil and water supplies instead of in the air. It's as bad as our continual lack of a permanent solution to nuclear waste.)
Censorship on privately owned web services is a completely separate issue from Net Neutrality. Net Neutrality's only purpose is to prevent ISPs - the gatekeepers of the internet - from deciding what content they are going to allow and how fast they're going to allow it to be.
If you want to talk about free speech on the internet, that's fine, and that's a discussion worth having, but that is not what Net Neutrality is about. Please don't confuse the issue.
There is no excuse for there being only a single Republican vote for this. Net Neutrality is a completely non-partisan issue with majority support from voters on both sides of the isle. Any politician that doesn't vote for it is complete scum and needs to be kicked out of office.