The most surprising thing about this story for me is that Iowa needs 5,000 bridges.
You shouldn't be. I drove through part of it last year (a very small corner of it) and being a relatively flat state (compared to PA), they need bridges to cross the roads, otherwise you'd have intersections all over the place, not to mention any rivers (creeks compared to rivers in the east) and those oddball depressions one comes across.
For example, if you take Exit 10 off of 29 N, you are at a bridge. That bridge is 29 N but under it is Route 2. Imagine if you had an intersection of 29, which is a highway, meeting a smaller, slower road such as Route 2.
Nebraska and South Dakota were the same way. Relatively flat states but lots of bridges to go over the other roads.
Because New York, LA, Dallas, Chicago and all other cities have NIMBY syndrome.
Low density sprawl is better since there is at least some land left to plant trees and/or flowers. Even on a 1/10 acre lot there could be numerous shrubs and plants for bees to pollinate.
Instead, we get blocks of rowhomes on a plot of land just big enough to put a swingset on.
This doesn't even get into the thousands of acres of farmland, and I'm not talking just corn or wheat, being paved over.
"All they have to do is make sure to set aside enough land conducive to the bees' habitat."
When one looks at all the dense pack housing going up, destroying entire forests and paving over every blade of grass, it's not surprising the bees are dying out. What do you expect when all one sees is acre upon acre of asphalt and concrete?
I drive by developments which have been up for years and all I see are scraggily trees and, if very lucky, a single, solitary bed of flowers at someone's house. The rest are simply plots of grass with a house on them.
Humans have done this repeatedly over the centuries, destroy habitat, then wonder why animals die off. Considering we're supposed to be the smartest animal on the planet you'd think we would have learned by now.
It would be nice to have another choice other than Microsoft or Apple, but until the various Linux communities figure out how to make their software work as easily as either of the big boys, which means running real programs such as Photoshop/DxO Optics Pro/Capture One for those in the photo field, or the numerous games out there for most other people, it's just not going to make decent penetration on the desktop even if it is free.
Granted, Microsoft conspiring with Intel to lock their chips down doesn't help, but that's not the fault of the Linux community.
For general web surfing and such, Linux is there. For everything else, it has a long way to go.
people spend so much time on their gadgets that they "forget about being in the moment."
I'm glad this person has an advanced degree to state the obvious. Pick any location and guaranteed you will see someone taking a selfie or quickly pulling up their phone to take a picture then just as quickly moving on, not bothering to enjoy being at that place at that time.
Then again, these people are the ones who brag about working 16 - 18 hour days, seven days a week, always on call because of the money they're making, how they're on the cutting edge of technology, etc. You can't complain you're not meeting people or having sex if that's your life. Nothing is stopping you from taking a breath once in a while to smell the roses except yourself.
the left is busily trying to summon by calling for assassination, coup, and terror.
Because no one on the right ever said such things while Obama was in office for eight years. Nope, they were perfectly civil angels who only wished him the best and worked with him to move this country forward.
No siree. Not a single word about hangings or shootings or impeachment or anything of the sort from those on the right. Not a single instance.
WordPerfect is far superior to Word so the lawyers are actually being more efficient. In fact, WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS is probably the most perfect word processing program ever.
Anyone who ever used it can attest to the speed and ease of accomplishing things which in Word require burrowing down through ribbons to find what you need. In fact, once one became even moderately proficient in WordPerfect their hands rarely left the keyboard.
Imagine being able to figure out why your tabs or paragraphs weren't lining up correctly through the tap of two keys which revealed all the hidden codes. Now imagine being able to instantly control how you wanted things to look rather than be at the mercy of some far off developer who didn't care what you wanted.
Why pay an exorbitant amount for a bloated, convoluted piece of software when you already have something which is easier and more efficient to use?
This article from MarketWatch talks about a 30-something who was going big or going broke betting on Apple's earnings. In his case he had been listening and posting to the Reddit forum dealing with stock trading. At one point in time he had amassed a small fortune but was reduced to a mere $240,000 which he was placing on his final bet that Apple would substantially miss its earnings and as a result, Apple's stock price would take a nosedive. He had bought options for such an event which would net him millions if the trade played out.
Fast forward to today's announcement and he's pretty much wiped out. Not totally since he was doing some other options trading to try and cover some of his bet, but on the whole, he lost it all.
There is no problem. If the child dies that's one less we have to worry about reproducing and continuing down this charade of "medicine" by dilution. There are over 7 billion people on this planet, we can afford to lose a few, especially ones as dumb as this. Isn't that the complaint, it's the dumb ones who have 3, 4 or 5 kids while the educated folks get by with one, maybe two?
As we routinely read on here, it's never the developer's fault. For anything. It's always someone else's fault when bug-ridden software is pushed out or when changes such as this one are made.
So don't hold your breath expecting a developer, or group of developers, to stand up and claim ownership for this.
How do you expect users to install application software?
Create a separate administrator account for when something needs to be installed or they need to tweak system settings. You log into it only when needed. All other times you run as a local user without admin privileges.
how do you expect them to tell a legitimate site from a malicious one?
First, install uMatrix in Firefox which will, under certain conditions, disallow a web page to load if it determines there is something malicious or off about the page. It is not foolproof, but it's a good line of defense.
Second, by having uMatrix installed you can control to a very granular degree, what scripts and so forth are allowed to run on a page, thus reducing potential drive-bys.
Third, and this might take a bit of effort, don't go to places like Bob's House of Free Software.
Granted, the last one is nothing more than common sense, but if people really want to lessen their chances of infections or ransomware getting on their machines, they might put in some effort to acquire some.
These are small, battery powered devices. There is little that a "hacker" could do to hurt himself that he couldn't do better by sticking his tongue in a light socket.
I guess hooking up this device to a standard wall socket is out of the question? Because there's no way someone might want to create a tasp?
"Climate is changing, and climate has always changed. There's archeological evidence of that. There's biblical evidence of that. There's historic evidence of that."
"The hoax is that there are some people who are so arrogant to think that they are so powerful, they can change climate. Man can't change climate."
We can look to our recent history and see the same extinction process created by man. The passenger pigeon, Tasmanian tiger, the Dodo, Great auk, Quaggas, Carolina parakeet and so on. Even today there are several species who are literally on the brink of going extinct, including the northern white rhino of which the last known male of its species is under 24 hour guard to protect it from poachers. Had it not been for Teddy Roosevelt, the American bison would most likely also be extinct, slaughtered by the literal tens of thousands as short as 130 years ago.
Man-made extinction also occurs in human populations. How many different Native American tribes were exterminated either because of Europeans or their Native American allies? How about those of Central and South America or those in the Far East?
We can see the same extinction process in places like Borneo where the habitat of orangutans is being wiped out due to illegal farming or clear cutting for palm oil trees, and similar processes under way in Madagascar where many animals exist in no other place on the planet, such as the ring-tailed lemur of which only an estimated 2,500 still survive.
Anyone who says man doesn't and can't have an effect on the environment is simply blind to reality.
Perhaps you would like to discuss long pointless talks about global warming with Trump. In his filing for his Scottish golf course, he explicitly mentions the need to build a sea wall to protect it because, wait for it, current scientific evidence points to a rise in sea levels which would increase erosion.
You can read Trump's own words right here. Let me point out what Trump said in his petition:
"If the predictions of an increase in sea level rise as a result of global warming prove correct, however, it is likely that there will be a corresponding increase in coastal erosion rates not just in Doughmore Bay but around much of the coastline of Ireland. In our view, it could reasonably be expected that the rate of sea level rise might become twice of that presently occurring.... As a result, we would expect the rate of dune recession to increase,"
Of coarse (sic) this is the same guy who has tried to stop construction of wind farms off the coast of Ireland and Scotland and also says wind farms are not economically viable while simultaneously investing in wind farm companies.
So what was that about producing huge amounts of CO2?
the ultra-wealthy with their high-frequency traders get richer, and normal people's retirement funds get poorer....
How is a person's retirement fund getting poorer if the price of a stock rebounds in a week? Unless the person sells that stock in that short time period nothing has changed. The value of their retirement fund is the same as it was the week before.
You could argue, unsuccessfully, that the week downturn "cost" that person's retirement account because had Trump not said anything the downturn wouldn't have happened, but there is no way to know if something else would have affected that stock in the same time.
Holding on to good quality stocks and/or mutual funds will, in the end, make you more wealthy than buying and selling at the drop of a hat.
Compare this generation to the generation that fought WWII.
You mean the generation who literally, in the truest sense of the word, would attack a black guy if he was talking to a white woman? The ones who tried to bar blacks from integrating into a white university and which the National Guard had to come out and protect the kids who only wanted an education?
I remember, back in the day, when ATMs were first proposed. They would save the banks soooo much money. They could have fewer employees since now their customers could get to their money whenever they felt like it. There would be less paperwork, shorter lines, the benefits were endless.
Which is why you are now charged to get your own money if you're not using your own bank's ATM.
I wonder what money-grabbing scheme banks will implement if they start using blockchains?
With each iteration of Windows Microsoft has made it more and more difficult to find and change settings on your own machine, even going so far as to move settings from one area they've been in for the longest time to a completely different and unrelated section
Now comes the updates. In the past one could easily find what the update entailed by reading the update itself (not always helpful) or by clicking the link Microsoft provided. Instead of that easy process one will now have to jump through hoops to find what they want.
Considering how often we hear Microsoft's software is supposed to make life easier, they sure seem to be going out of their way to make it more difficult.
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The most surprising thing about this story for me is that Iowa needs 5,000 bridges.
You shouldn't be. I drove through part of it last year (a very small corner of it) and being a relatively flat state (compared to PA), they need bridges to cross the roads, otherwise you'd have intersections all over the place, not to mention any rivers (creeks compared to rivers in the east) and those oddball depressions one comes across.
For example, if you take Exit 10 off of 29 N, you are at a bridge. That bridge is 29 N but under it is Route 2. Imagine if you had an intersection of 29, which is a highway, meeting a smaller, slower road such as Route 2.
Nebraska and South Dakota were the same way. Relatively flat states but lots of bridges to go over the other roads.
Has anyone here ever actually paid for porn?
Companies wouldn't still be in business if people didn't.
Because New York, LA, Dallas, Chicago and all other cities have NIMBY syndrome.
Low density sprawl is better since there is at least some land left to plant trees and/or flowers. Even on a 1/10 acre lot there could be numerous shrubs and plants for bees to pollinate.
Instead, we get blocks of rowhomes on a plot of land just big enough to put a swingset on.
This doesn't even get into the thousands of acres of farmland, and I'm not talking just corn or wheat, being paved over.
"All they have to do is make sure to set aside enough land conducive to the bees' habitat."
When one looks at all the dense pack housing going up, destroying entire forests and paving over every blade of grass, it's not surprising the bees are dying out. What do you expect when all one sees is acre upon acre of asphalt and concrete?
I drive by developments which have been up for years and all I see are scraggily trees and, if very lucky, a single, solitary bed of flowers at someone's house. The rest are simply plots of grass with a house on them.
Humans have done this repeatedly over the centuries, destroy habitat, then wonder why animals die off. Considering we're supposed to be the smartest animal on the planet you'd think we would have learned by now.
the year of Linux on the desktop.
It would be nice to have another choice other than Microsoft or Apple, but until the various Linux communities figure out how to make their software work as easily as either of the big boys, which means running real programs such as Photoshop/DxO Optics Pro/Capture One for those in the photo field, or the numerous games out there for most other people, it's just not going to make decent penetration on the desktop even if it is free.
Granted, Microsoft conspiring with Intel to lock their chips down doesn't help, but that's not the fault of the Linux community.
For general web surfing and such, Linux is there. For everything else, it has a long way to go.
people spend so much time on their gadgets that they "forget about being in the moment."
I'm glad this person has an advanced degree to state the obvious. Pick any location and guaranteed you will see someone taking a selfie or quickly pulling up their phone to take a picture then just as quickly moving on, not bothering to enjoy being at that place at that time.
Then again, these people are the ones who brag about working 16 - 18 hour days, seven days a week, always on call because of the money they're making, how they're on the cutting edge of technology, etc. You can't complain you're not meeting people or having sex if that's your life. Nothing is stopping you from taking a breath once in a while to smell the roses except yourself.
the left is busily trying to summon by calling for assassination, coup, and terror.
Because no one on the right ever said such things while Obama was in office for eight years. Nope, they were perfectly civil angels who only wished him the best and worked with him to move this country forward.
No siree. Not a single word about hangings or shootings or impeachment or anything of the sort from those on the right. Not a single instance.
WordPerfect is far superior to Word so the lawyers are actually being more efficient. In fact, WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS is probably the most perfect word processing program ever.
Anyone who ever used it can attest to the speed and ease of accomplishing things which in Word require burrowing down through ribbons to find what you need. In fact, once one became even moderately proficient in WordPerfect their hands rarely left the keyboard.
Imagine being able to figure out why your tabs or paragraphs weren't lining up correctly through the tap of two keys which revealed all the hidden codes. Now imagine being able to instantly control how you wanted things to look rather than be at the mercy of some far off developer who didn't care what you wanted.
Why pay an exorbitant amount for a bloated, convoluted piece of software when you already have something which is easier and more efficient to use?
This article from MarketWatch talks about a 30-something who was going big or going broke betting on Apple's earnings. In his case he had been listening and posting to the Reddit forum dealing with stock trading. At one point in time he had amassed a small fortune but was reduced to a mere $240,000 which he was placing on his final bet that Apple would substantially miss its earnings and as a result, Apple's stock price would take a nosedive. He had bought options for such an event which would net him millions if the trade played out.
Fast forward to today's announcement and he's pretty much wiped out. Not totally since he was doing some other options trading to try and cover some of his bet, but on the whole, he lost it all.
It will be interesting to see what happens next.
but they're poisoning small children,
It's their children, not someone else's
and that's the chief problem here.
There is no problem. If the child dies that's one less we have to worry about reproducing and continuing down this charade of "medicine" by dilution. There are over 7 billion people on this planet, we can afford to lose a few, especially ones as dumb as this. Isn't that the complaint, it's the dumb ones who have 3, 4 or 5 kids while the educated folks get by with one, maybe two?
As we routinely read on here, it's never the developer's fault. For anything. It's always someone else's fault when bug-ridden software is pushed out or when changes such as this one are made.
So don't hold your breath expecting a developer, or group of developers, to stand up and claim ownership for this.
How do you expect users to install application software?
Create a separate administrator account for when something needs to be installed or they need to tweak system settings. You log into it only when needed. All other times you run as a local user without admin privileges.
how do you expect them to tell a legitimate site from a malicious one?
First, install uMatrix in Firefox which will, under certain conditions, disallow a web page to load if it determines there is something malicious or off about the page. It is not foolproof, but it's a good line of defense.
Second, by having uMatrix installed you can control to a very granular degree, what scripts and so forth are allowed to run on a page, thus reducing potential drive-bys.
Third, and this might take a bit of effort, don't go to places like Bob's House of Free Software.
Granted, the last one is nothing more than common sense, but if people really want to lessen their chances of infections or ransomware getting on their machines, they might put in some effort to acquire some.
These are small, battery powered devices. There is little that a "hacker" could do to hurt himself that he couldn't do better by sticking his tongue in a light socket.
I guess hooking up this device to a standard wall socket is out of the question? Because there's no way someone might want to create a tasp?
What could possibly go wrong?
The phrase, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" will take on a whole new meaning.
So a grand total of about 74 minutes' work was lost.
Which, from the way some programmers on here talk, could have been a whole three lines of code.
I present to you Republican Senator James Inhofe:
"Climate is changing, and climate has always changed. There's archeological evidence of that. There's biblical evidence of that. There's historic evidence of that."
"The hoax is that there are some people who are so arrogant to think that they are so powerful, they can change climate. Man can't change climate."
We can look to our recent history and see the same extinction process created by man. The passenger pigeon, Tasmanian tiger, the Dodo, Great auk, Quaggas, Carolina parakeet and so on. Even today there are several species who are literally on the brink of going extinct, including the northern white rhino of which the last known male of its species is under 24 hour guard to protect it from poachers. Had it not been for Teddy Roosevelt, the American bison would most likely also be extinct, slaughtered by the literal tens of thousands as short as 130 years ago.
Man-made extinction also occurs in human populations. How many different Native American tribes were exterminated either because of Europeans or their Native American allies? How about those of Central and South America or those in the Far East?
We can see the same extinction process in places like Borneo where the habitat of orangutans is being wiped out due to illegal farming or clear cutting for palm oil trees, and similar processes under way in Madagascar where many animals exist in no other place on the planet, such as the ring-tailed lemur of which only an estimated 2,500 still survive.
Anyone who says man doesn't and can't have an effect on the environment is simply blind to reality.
dumping that much extra iron into the economy would make the "value" close to zero.
Which would mean the cost to construct something using iron would decrease substantially thus saving money in material costs.
Perhaps you would like to discuss long pointless talks about global warming with Trump. In his filing for his Scottish golf course, he explicitly mentions the need to build a sea wall to protect it because, wait for it, current scientific evidence points to a rise in sea levels which would increase erosion.
You can read Trump's own words right here. Let me point out what Trump said in his petition:
"If the predictions of an increase in sea level rise as a result of global warming prove correct, however, it is likely that there will be a corresponding increase in coastal erosion rates not just in Doughmore Bay but around much of the coastline of Ireland. In our view, it could reasonably be expected that the rate of sea level rise might become twice of that presently occurring. ... As a result, we would expect the rate of dune recession to increase,"
Of coarse (sic) this is the same guy who has tried to stop construction of wind farms off the coast of Ireland and Scotland and also says wind farms are not economically viable while simultaneously investing in wind farm companies.
So what was that about producing huge amounts of CO2?
the ultra-wealthy with their high-frequency traders get richer, and normal people's retirement funds get poorer....
How is a person's retirement fund getting poorer if the price of a stock rebounds in a week? Unless the person sells that stock in that short time period nothing has changed. The value of their retirement fund is the same as it was the week before.
You could argue, unsuccessfully, that the week downturn "cost" that person's retirement account because had Trump not said anything the downturn wouldn't have happened, but there is no way to know if something else would have affected that stock in the same time.
Holding on to good quality stocks and/or mutual funds will, in the end, make you more wealthy than buying and selling at the drop of a hat.
Compare this generation to the generation that fought WWII.
You mean the generation who literally, in the truest sense of the word, would attack a black guy if he was talking to a white woman? The ones who tried to bar blacks from integrating into a white university and which the National Guard had to come out and protect the kids who only wanted an education?
You mean that generation?
I remember, back in the day, when ATMs were first proposed. They would save the banks soooo much money. They could have fewer employees since now their customers could get to their money whenever they felt like it. There would be less paperwork, shorter lines, the benefits were endless.
Which is why you are now charged to get your own money if you're not using your own bank's ATM.
I wonder what money-grabbing scheme banks will implement if they start using blockchains?
You mean I can't type out a Word document, read my email or visit a web site using Windows 7 because it's so insecure?
Well now, whose fault is that?
Which can carry multiple riders? You mean like a helicopter?
With each iteration of Windows Microsoft has made it more and more difficult to find and change settings on your own machine, even going so far as to move settings from one area they've been in for the longest time to a completely different and unrelated section
Now comes the updates. In the past one could easily find what the update entailed by reading the update itself (not always helpful) or by clicking the link Microsoft provided. Instead of that easy process one will now have to jump through hoops to find what they want.
Considering how often we hear Microsoft's software is supposed to make life easier, they sure seem to be going out of their way to make it more difficult.