This is why I'm not worried about climate change getting out of hand.
That is not so simple, climate has quite an inertia, and true the Earth was worm in the past but not with 7+bln people mostly leaving at the coastal areas. There are estimated maps available online, which shows coastlines depending on average temperature increase.
There is no need to impose hardship on anyone when the solutions are more desirable on their own.
Yes, that what we always worry about - the hardship of coal industry. The fact that green-energy industry employs people the same way, giving additionally savings due to clean environment benefits on health, not to mention costs of rebuilding coastal cities or relocating people due to floods somehow are not mentioned.
That is complete bullshit. One of patent's requirement is, it CAN'T BE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE. You spill the beans before you file for the patent, invalid. Someone has published the same idea before you, INVALID.
The problem is, that USPTO by default grants patents, the extensive checks are expensive and they do not bother anymore - let the courts sort it out.
I guess I am not being fair here, I am pretty sure they check their own database of patents before.
There are several very useful for humanity topics, requiring lots of calculations:
- fusion, whether for tokamacs or stellarators
- proteins for medicine
- properties of alloys
- PI (to see if Carl Sagan was joking or was he on to something;)
The only exception was the solid fueled boosters on the Space Shuttle, which was so super-duper safe that failure was unthinkable, so there would be no need to abort.
... and Ares I (cancelled), and SLS (~10 years in development and going on), and Atlas (for Starliner).
And lets not forget the Challenger, however I would presume your post was intentionally sarcastic.
Quite the contrary, it will work. To support my statement I have historical example of dealing with the ozone whole. People holding decision power were clever enough to listen to scientists fortunately and now the whole is shrinking.
It is tough, but people in general are clever if only an issue is not politicized so people have access to the facts. Event (!) in the US, polls shows 64% population concerned about this issue. Global warming is not a problem of our kids, it is happening now, and the predicted anomalies are happening now - people are affected by them, so once it will hit hard the wallets people will start to put attention.
So you're saying that digging out fossilized plants and burning them is more sustainable and predictable than:
- the Sun shining on our planet
- the wind continue blowing
- the water falling
- the internal Earth heat, well, continue to exist
?
Have you ever heard about Tesla battery pack installation in Australia, which stabilizes its power grid better then anything they had so far?
Agree, the decision is quite surprising. I understand that for some sales Amazon might be just a middleman, but if the bill comes from Amazon, box comes from Amazon, there is no clear indication who the actual seller is then it is Amazon.
I had myself some unpleasant experiences, now I am very careful to check if the seller has US office/address to return to.
Possibly I will earn a troll batch, but lets state the facts, Cambridge Analytic is not a US company, as such, their involvement/influencing elections is against the law as far as I know (and lets not forget all the Moscow Propaganda Office advertising). In the U.S we can argue as much as we want, but a foreign entity influencing elections is against the law - period.
I have been using Android phones exclusively, however I have to disagree with your claim about Apple intentionally obsoleting their old devices.
I have only iPad from Apple and I have yet to see another device with such outstanding quality and support. All my Android phones stopped getting upgrades after about 1.5 years, the iPad kept getting upgrades for about 10 years, and stopped upgrading only because hardware was not compatible with the new software anymore, however it is still operational and working great. Due to Android world upgrades issues I decided to go on with Google flag phones, guess what, after several years their simply abandon their own phones support, not to mention that their top notch Huway Nexus 6P turned off after a year and a month (conveniently after warranty expired) and never turned on back again. I tried revive it by all means, searching web, calling Google, calling Huway - nothing, seems like a known (!) problem with mainborads - now a nice paper weight.
I still use an Android phone (I like some Android features and configuration flexibility), however my patience is running short. Once (after upgrade) my phone automatically decided my company account to be the primary one and synchronized all my photos to the company account - fixing this was quite a pain.
I have utter respect for Apple products quality and support, their technology is advanced user-friendly and simply working (quite simplified though, which for most is a good thing). I always recommend them for not tech savvy customers.
Not everybody realizes the power of big data. There was a story that one of the retail shops, based on products search criteria determined that their customer was pregnant before she even new.
Facebook (and others) have access to such amount of data about a person based on phones and web activities, posted photos, likes and all just mentioned about ones friends, that they know people's political affiliation, education, mental state, family details to certain extent, health issues, how often one travels and whether for business or vacation - practically a story of ones life to such an extent that principles of democracy might be at stake, aka gerrymandering.
The bigger problem these days is dealing with changing IP addresses, and the fact that a single web server running on a home connection can't scale up if something on it becomes even slightly popular.
There are dynamic DNS services, home routers even have a specific option for that to automatically register changing IPs (at least it was so last time I checked).
... or we could just make guns harder to buy. And stop encouraging copycats by not making mass shooters and their deeds part of the 24 hour news cycle. Also offer psych treatment for free and have employment policies that don't destroy families.
You know, the way most civilised countries handle it. But, nooooo, we need our guns and our crappy private insurance system... because freedom.
Sadly, making guns harder to buy wont help. That's treating the symptom, not the cause.
How do you know that? It seems to work in other countries.
I will answer, you do not know, because it is forbidden by law for any government organization to do any research in that matter.
However I see your point, that there is a mentally broken person behind every mass shooting, but still... with a gun.
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Does "a well regulated militia" mean every drunk, having mental or anger issues person? Maybe it would be good to actually follow the intentions not literally take a word, the intention is liberty and self governance.
How face recognition AI following (first) kids at schools then every person everywhere, in the name of safety, because we need every crazy have a gun but still we need some decent safety - how is it liberty?
One day I would understand why people hate The Last Jedi, I really enjoyed it.
No hate, there were quite good moments there, in my opinion much better (logical) then the previous one, however there were quite controversial ideas as well and one totally contradicting what happened before:
- flying Leia, why?
- Luke Skywalker character development, why?
- destroying spaceships when jumping into hyperspace - well, why bother fighting the Death Star, stilling plans, looking for a weakness, decimating fighter pilots, just send a spaceship and jump into hyperspace - the end
I enjoyed "Rogue One", but the other latest installments, well, visually great, but lack imagination and logic, not to mention complete lack of any - I mean any (1) - scientific grasp of reality - the worlds and plot is just copy/swap characters/paste, nothing new. Lucas maybe lacked sophistication in details, but his story was interesting and created universe imaginative. And lets not forget that with the latest discoveries in astronomy there is really not much imagination required to create some amazing worlds.
1) The vision of a new death planet swallowing the whole star, then sending some beams of energy to apparently another solar system (people there still had light), which destroyed a few planets with apparent Earth-Moon like distance - really, I mean really?
Germany had lots of restrictions regarding their army due to WWI, Staling made pact with Hitler and supported him military and let German troupes be trained in Russia, then together they partitioned Poland. Hitler and Stalin were cooperating till 1941, so I would be quite resistant to give Stalin any credit.
So just how much damage was done in those "massive" previous attacks, and how long did it take to restore the power grid and factories? Was it worse than squirrels or a hurricane?
I have to say: Amazing. The Moscow school of altering, twisting and diminishing facts is pretty good.
Because they all put it in the terms of service you agreed to and USA has no law that says they can't add that to the contract.
A question. Wasn't it a rule during Obama administration recently voted down by the current Congress and signed by Mr Trump?
On March 28, Congress voted along party lines to kill a set of rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission in October that would've forced your internet service provider, or ISP, to ask you before it collected certain personal information.
The joint resolution that enacts those changes, S.J. Res. 34, was presented by Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona and cosponsored by 24 other Republicans.
President Donald Trump signed the resolution on Monday night, turning it into law.
Wasn't it, that only part of the data was obtained directly from FB, and part from a survey, which collected data for scientific purposes, and that what the users agreed to, later the researcher sold the data to Cambridge Analytica?
Both cases entered shadowy legal area, the former was probably in violation of FB use of data the latter was clearly in violation of FB agreement with the scientist making the survey.
The future birth date seems to me totally not intentional and just related to Unix time limitation.
If truly time travelers were expected, wouln't the time go much into the future and not just till 2038?
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How about getting rid of writable media tax first?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This is why I'm not worried about climate change getting out of hand.
That is not so simple, climate has quite an inertia, and true the Earth was worm in the past but not with 7+bln people mostly leaving at the coastal areas. There are estimated maps available online, which shows coastlines depending on average temperature increase.
There is no need to impose hardship on anyone when the solutions are more desirable on their own.
Yes, that what we always worry about - the hardship of coal industry. The fact that green-energy industry employs people the same way, giving additionally savings due to clean environment benefits on health, not to mention costs of rebuilding coastal cities or relocating people due to floods somehow are not mentioned.
That is complete bullshit. One of patent's requirement is, it CAN'T BE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE. You spill the beans before you file for the patent, invalid. Someone has published the same idea before you, INVALID.
The problem is, that USPTO by default grants patents, the extensive checks are expensive and they do not bother anymore - let the courts sort it out.
I guess I am not being fair here, I am pretty sure they check their own database of patents before.
So that would be all about "do not evil", or have I missed already this phrase becoming a meaningless slogan?
At least Cisco PR is up to the task.
Wasn't that always someone else (outside the company) finding those backdoors - just saying.
There are several very useful for humanity topics, requiring lots of calculations: ;)
- fusion, whether for tokamacs or stellarators
- proteins for medicine
- properties of alloys
- PI (to see if Carl Sagan was joking or was he on to something
My mod points are out, but this post deserves +5.
Thanks to Slashdot coverage and community pressure, Microsoft has now officially promised to rename GVFS to something else,
I am pretty sure ;) the change is not due to pressure, but due to this proposal:
https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...
The only exception was the solid fueled boosters on the Space Shuttle, which was so super-duper safe that failure was unthinkable, so there would be no need to abort.
... and Ares I (cancelled), and SLS (~10 years in development and going on), and Atlas (for Starliner).
And lets not forget the Challenger, however I would presume your post was intentionally sarcastic.
It won't ever work!
Quite the contrary, it will work. To support my statement I have historical example of dealing with the ozone whole. People holding decision power were clever enough to listen to scientists fortunately and now the whole is shrinking.
It is tough, but people in general are clever if only an issue is not politicized so people have access to the facts. Event (!) in the US, polls shows 64% population concerned about this issue. Global warming is not a problem of our kids, it is happening now, and the predicted anomalies are happening now - people are affected by them, so once it will hit hard the wallets people will start to put attention.
So you're saying that digging out fossilized plants and burning them is more sustainable and predictable than:
- the Sun shining on our planet
- the wind continue blowing
- the water falling
- the internal Earth heat, well, continue to exist
?
Have you ever heard about Tesla battery pack installation in Australia, which stabilizes its power grid better then anything they had so far?
Agree, the decision is quite surprising. I understand that for some sales Amazon might be just a middleman, but if the bill comes from Amazon, box comes from Amazon, there is no clear indication who the actual seller is then it is Amazon.
I had myself some unpleasant experiences, now I am very careful to check if the seller has US office/address to return to.
Possibly I will earn a troll batch, but lets state the facts, Cambridge Analytic is not a US company, as such, their involvement/influencing elections is against the law as far as I know (and lets not forget all the Moscow Propaganda Office advertising). In the U.S we can argue as much as we want, but a foreign entity influencing elections is against the law - period.
I have been using Android phones exclusively, however I have to disagree with your claim about Apple intentionally obsoleting their old devices.
I have only iPad from Apple and I have yet to see another device with such outstanding quality and support. All my Android phones stopped getting upgrades after about 1.5 years, the iPad kept getting upgrades for about 10 years, and stopped upgrading only because hardware was not compatible with the new software anymore, however it is still operational and working great. Due to Android world upgrades issues I decided to go on with Google flag phones, guess what, after several years their simply abandon their own phones support, not to mention that their top notch Huway Nexus 6P turned off after a year and a month (conveniently after warranty expired) and never turned on back again. I tried revive it by all means, searching web, calling Google, calling Huway - nothing, seems like a known (!) problem with mainborads - now a nice paper weight.
I still use an Android phone (I like some Android features and configuration flexibility), however my patience is running short. Once (after upgrade) my phone automatically decided my company account to be the primary one and synchronized all my photos to the company account - fixing this was quite a pain.
I have utter respect for Apple products quality and support, their technology is advanced user-friendly and simply working (quite simplified though, which for most is a good thing). I always recommend them for not tech savvy customers.
Not everybody realizes the power of big data. There was a story that one of the retail shops, based on products search criteria determined that their customer was pregnant before she even new.
Facebook (and others) have access to such amount of data about a person based on phones and web activities, posted photos, likes and all just mentioned about ones friends, that they know people's political affiliation, education, mental state, family details to certain extent, health issues, how often one travels and whether for business or vacation - practically a story of ones life to such an extent that principles of democracy might be at stake, aka gerrymandering.
The first question that comes to my mind is, why would ANYONE be honest when entering their information into Facebook?
Why do you think facebook relies on data you entered vs mined about you from what you're doing?
The bigger problem these days is dealing with changing IP addresses, and the fact that a single web server running on a home connection can't scale up if something on it becomes even slightly popular.
There are dynamic DNS services, home routers even have a specific option for that to automatically register changing IPs (at least it was so last time I checked).
... or we could just make guns harder to buy. And stop encouraging copycats by not making mass shooters and their deeds part of the 24 hour news cycle. Also offer psych treatment for free and have employment policies that don't destroy families.
You know, the way most civilised countries handle it. But, nooooo, we need our guns and our crappy private insurance system... because freedom.
Sadly, making guns harder to buy wont help. That's treating the symptom, not the cause.
How do you know that? It seems to work in other countries.
... with a gun.
I will answer, you do not know, because it is forbidden by law for any government organization to do any research in that matter.
However I see your point, that there is a mentally broken person behind every mass shooting, but still
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Does "a well regulated militia" mean every drunk, having mental or anger issues person? Maybe it would be good to actually follow the intentions not literally take a word, the intention is liberty and self governance.
How face recognition AI following (first) kids at schools then every person everywhere, in the name of safety, because we need every crazy have a gun but still we need some decent safety - how is it liberty?
One day I would understand why people hate The Last Jedi, I really enjoyed it.
No hate, there were quite good moments there, in my opinion much better (logical) then the previous one, however there were quite controversial ideas as well and one totally contradicting what happened before:
- flying Leia, why?
- Luke Skywalker character development, why?
- destroying spaceships when jumping into hyperspace - well, why bother fighting the Death Star, stilling plans, looking for a weakness, decimating fighter pilots, just send a spaceship and jump into hyperspace - the end
I enjoyed "Rogue One", but the other latest installments, well, visually great, but lack imagination and logic, not to mention complete lack of any - I mean any (1) - scientific grasp of reality - the worlds and plot is just copy/swap characters/paste, nothing new. Lucas maybe lacked sophistication in details, but his story was interesting and created universe imaginative. And lets not forget that with the latest discoveries in astronomy there is really not much imagination required to create some amazing worlds.
1) The vision of a new death planet swallowing the whole star, then sending some beams of energy to apparently another solar system (people there still had light), which destroyed a few planets with apparent Earth-Moon like distance - really, I mean really?
Germany had lots of restrictions regarding their army due to WWI, Staling made pact with Hitler and supported him military and let German troupes be trained in Russia, then together they partitioned Poland. Hitler and Stalin were cooperating till 1941, so I would be quite resistant to give Stalin any credit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.historynet.com/devi...
So just how much damage was done in those "massive" previous attacks, and how long did it take to restore the power grid and factories? Was it worse than squirrels or a hurricane?
I have to say: Amazing. The Moscow school of altering, twisting and diminishing facts is pretty good.
Because they all put it in the terms of service you agreed to and USA has no law that says they can't add that to the contract.
A question. Wasn't it a rule during Obama administration recently voted down by the current Congress and signed by Mr Trump?
On March 28, Congress voted along party lines to kill a set of rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission in October that would've forced your internet service provider, or ISP, to ask you before it collected certain personal information.
The joint resolution that enacts those changes, S.J. Res. 34, was presented by Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona and cosponsored by 24 other Republicans. President Donald Trump signed the resolution on Monday night, turning it into law.
Wasn't it, that only part of the data was obtained directly from FB, and part from a survey, which collected data for scientific purposes, and that what the users agreed to, later the researcher sold the data to Cambridge Analytica?
Both cases entered shadowy legal area, the former was probably in violation of FB use of data the latter was clearly in violation of FB agreement with the scientist making the survey.
The future birth date seems to me totally not intentional and just related to Unix time limitation.
If truly time travelers were expected, wouln't the time go much into the future and not just till 2038?