Here in the UK, traffic cameras are a common means of detecting road traffic offences, be it speeding or uninsured or untaxed vehicles - the registered keeper gets a notice of intent to prosecute sent to them and they have three options:
1. admit the offence, accept the points and fine (or any offered alternative) 2. respond with the drivers details if someone else was driving, and the offence was either speeding or uninsured vehicle 3. contest the offence, which means going to court
Its a decent system and it works - the DVLA knows if a vehicle is taxed, the Motor Insurance Database knows if a vehicle is insured (there are exceptions to this - you can get policies which cover you as a driver on any vehicle, which means the vehicle would be covered and you just respond to the notice of prosecution with proof). Of course drivers don't like the system, but it does work:)
I do find it amusing how riled up Americans get whenever someone considers a similar system in the US - I just don't get what it is about punishing illegal drivers that pisses people off!
An even better example is The Expanse - absolutely *massive* changes between the books and the series, but apparently it's OK because the authors are involved with both...
The issue is that they started the series by saying "we have a story, its a long one" and then they threw it out the window and took on board a fan theory.
It ruined it for me, and the later seasons show that change, and a lot of stuff got left unanswered, fudged or forgotten about to make it fit.
You do realise that the FAA *routinely* requires more testing than the military does for its aircraft certifications, right? There are two different standards involved - often a manufacturer will certify to FAA standard if they want to sell the aircraft on the civilian market (C-130, C-17 for example), and that involves additional testing beyond the military standard.
Military aircraft have crashed because of unforeseen metal fatigue, which would have been caught under civilian regimes of testing and maintenance. The FAA works on a completely different level to the DoD, and it has to because the planes it certifies can carry 800 people to holiday destinations four times a day.
When BSG was airing, Ron Moore routinely did a pod cast on each episode - he makes it painfully clear in those pod casts that the "Final Five" were not a thing at all until the writers noticed that the fan base had cottoned onto these missing five humanoid cylons and started writing them into the core of the story.
Thats why they had to fudge it at the end to account for the screwed up numbering (we had numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8 named early on - of course they had set apart the five so it would make no sense to slot them in as 7, 9, 10, 11 and 12, so they slotted "Daniel" in as 7 and all of a sudden we went from 12 models to 13).
That right there ruined BSG for me - it became obvious that there was no overall story arc planned out, it was being made up as they went.
Oh look, an idiot who decides to comment about something they obviously have no actual knowledge of...
Visual Studio Code is an entirely separate product to Visual Studio. The two are only related by name.
VS Code is a fantastic, extensible, cross platform text editor with support for many many languages, plugins and code hinters.
Its also just a 37MB download for Windows, 68MB download for OSX and a 41MB download for Linux.
Visual Studio is a behemoth of an IDE, running into gigabytes of space used and is only available for Windows (and OSX if you count the VS For Mac project, which really is a continuation of Xamarin Studio after the acquisition).
For someone with a five digit ID, you really fucked up on this one...
Its Coinbases business as much as it is a club owners business to know if people are dealing drugs on their premises - its on their premises which makes it their business.
You could easily transfer everything to your own local wallet and conduct the transaction there, and then Coinbase wouldnt have any business having an issue.
New editors are announced pretty much daily from all sorts of sources - but Microsoft release one and Slashdotters fall over themselves to deride MS for it.
They aren't a regulatory body, but they also aren't a regulated body either - this is the equivalent of going to a chinese medicine doctor instead of a sexual health clinic when your john thomas is oozing green puss.
Could it possibly be that Coinbase are themselves concerned that they will get into trouble for aiding and abetting due to the very transactions this guy wants to do, as currently they are not regulated and therefor have no scope within any regulation to be allowed to permit transactions to known fraud accounts while holding no responsibility for that transaction.
A basic cover your ass situation. "Cyber extortion payments" may not strictly be illegal, but certainly an aiding and abetting criminal activity case can be made against any exchange which facilitates them...
Again, someone ignoring the point that many US government launches include payloads that are north of a billion dollars - even with SpaceX launching for free, saving the government $400m, that isnt going to equate to "less money" using anyones math...
Or did you miss the part of my post where I said Musk was bang on for *commercial* launches...?
Yup, because lowest bidding contractor has *never* had any downside...
I'd rather the government went for quality over lowest cost when we are talking about launch a billion dollars of something that you are self insuring. SpaceX is getting there on quality, but this comparison is still ridiculous.
The $422m figure is for a Delta Heavy launch, which makes the comparison with the Falcon 9 laughable - it should be compared with a Falcon Heavy launch, which SpaceX ain't giving launch cost figures for yet.
Also, Musks quote about the $300m price difference being the cost of the satellite is bang on, for commercial launches - military satellites are often into the billions of dollars, and as such are less price sensitive on the launch and more success sensitive. Delta Iv Heavy is at 8 launches with no failures (one partial success) and Atlas V is at 71 launches with no failures (one partial success).
SpaceX are getting there with reliability, but Musk needs to learn to STFU when it comes to price sensitivity because for some customers thats not the driving factor.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in 2015 (DirecTV vs. Imburgia) that arbitration clauses in consumer contracts were binding, even above state law go the contrary.
The UKs National Threat Level has been at "severe or "critical" for 9 of the last 11 years. We are already in the midst of a never ending emergency, the UK government would *love* this...
If the government wants to bitch and moan about it, then they should buy the land and then its theirs to do with as they wish, for as long as they wish.
Farmers electing to not renew the contracts for allowing the land to lay fallow means that they think the money they get for doing so is less than the money they can get from working that land - so basically the government need to make it more of an incentive than they do right now.
And none of that, including reading the article, changes my point about the title, summary and tense... the money paid is historical for historical obligations, it doesn't cover current obligations.
Tense is everything, and tense is something the title and summary screws up royally.
Title says...
US Pays Farmers Billions To Save The Soil. But It's Blowing Away
however the summary says the US stopped paying the farmers that money, because the farmers ceased to renew the enrolments...
farmers decided not to re-enroll 15.8 million acres of farmland in the CRP when those contracts expired between 2007 and 2014
The title makes it sound like the farmers are taking the money and eschewing their responsibilities and allowing the soil to blow away - they aren't, those responsibilities expired when the money stopped flowing.
The document seems to be a summary of an *ongoing* investigation - in what way is it "hidden evidence"?
She saw something juicy, and she leaked it - theres nothing here which is whistleblowing. In the document she released, there is no evidence of wrong doing by the NSA, her employers, her colleagues or the government, just some information on an in progress investigation.
Slashdot Mirror
Here in the UK, traffic cameras are a common means of detecting road traffic offences, be it speeding or uninsured or untaxed vehicles - the registered keeper gets a notice of intent to prosecute sent to them and they have three options:
1. admit the offence, accept the points and fine (or any offered alternative)
2. respond with the drivers details if someone else was driving, and the offence was either speeding or uninsured vehicle
3. contest the offence, which means going to court
Its a decent system and it works - the DVLA knows if a vehicle is taxed, the Motor Insurance Database knows if a vehicle is insured (there are exceptions to this - you can get policies which cover you as a driver on any vehicle, which means the vehicle would be covered and you just respond to the notice of prosecution with proof). Of course drivers don't like the system, but it does work :)
I do find it amusing how riled up Americans get whenever someone considers a similar system in the US - I just don't get what it is about punishing illegal drivers that pisses people off!
An even better example is The Expanse - absolutely *massive* changes between the books and the series, but apparently it's OK because the authors are involved with both...
But McDonnel Douglas did market it to the civilian market under the designation MD-17, and they achieved FAA certification for it in 1997.
http://boeing.mediaroom.com/19...
So my point stands.
The issue is that they started the series by saying "we have a story, its a long one" and then they threw it out the window and took on board a fan theory.
It ruined it for me, and the later seasons show that change, and a lot of stuff got left unanswered, fudged or forgotten about to make it fit.
You do realise that the FAA *routinely* requires more testing than the military does for its aircraft certifications, right? There are two different standards involved - often a manufacturer will certify to FAA standard if they want to sell the aircraft on the civilian market (C-130, C-17 for example), and that involves additional testing beyond the military standard.
Military aircraft have crashed because of unforeseen metal fatigue, which would have been caught under civilian regimes of testing and maintenance. The FAA works on a completely different level to the DoD, and it has to because the planes it certifies can carry 800 people to holiday destinations four times a day.
When BSG was airing, Ron Moore routinely did a pod cast on each episode - he makes it painfully clear in those pod casts that the "Final Five" were not a thing at all until the writers noticed that the fan base had cottoned onto these missing five humanoid cylons and started writing them into the core of the story.
Thats why they had to fudge it at the end to account for the screwed up numbering (we had numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8 named early on - of course they had set apart the five so it would make no sense to slot them in as 7, 9, 10, 11 and 12, so they slotted "Daniel" in as 7 and all of a sudden we went from 12 models to 13).
That right there ruined BSG for me - it became obvious that there was no overall story arc planned out, it was being made up as they went.
Oh look, an idiot who decides to comment about something they obviously have no actual knowledge of...
Visual Studio Code is an entirely separate product to Visual Studio. The two are only related by name.
VS Code is a fantastic, extensible, cross platform text editor with support for many many languages, plugins and code hinters.
Its also just a 37MB download for Windows, 68MB download for OSX and a 41MB download for Linux.
Visual Studio is a behemoth of an IDE, running into gigabytes of space used and is only available for Windows (and OSX if you count the VS For Mac project, which really is a continuation of Xamarin Studio after the acquisition).
For someone with a five digit ID, you really fucked up on this one...
Its Coinbases business as much as it is a club owners business to know if people are dealing drugs on their premises - its on their premises which makes it their business.
You could easily transfer everything to your own local wallet and conduct the transaction there, and then Coinbase wouldnt have any business having an issue.
New editors are announced pretty much daily from all sorts of sources - but Microsoft release one and Slashdotters fall over themselves to deride MS for it.
In my time as a dev, I have used:
- EditPlus
- Notepad++
- Atom
- Brackets
- Scrawl
- Textmate
- Sublime
- BBEdit
- TextWrangler
- UltraEdit
and probably a bunch more ... but, ya know, MS releases one so fuck MS...
If this is Embrace Extend and Extinguish, then I'm all for it because VSCode is a fucking good editor.
They aren't a regulatory body, but they also aren't a regulated body either - this is the equivalent of going to a chinese medicine doctor instead of a sexual health clinic when your john thomas is oozing green puss.
Could it possibly be that Coinbase are themselves concerned that they will get into trouble for aiding and abetting due to the very transactions this guy wants to do, as currently they are not regulated and therefor have no scope within any regulation to be allowed to permit transactions to known fraud accounts while holding no responsibility for that transaction.
A basic cover your ass situation. "Cyber extortion payments" may not strictly be illegal, but certainly an aiding and abetting criminal activity case can be made against any exchange which facilitates them...
Again, someone ignoring the point that many US government launches include payloads that are north of a billion dollars - even with SpaceX launching for free, saving the government $400m, that isnt going to equate to "less money" using anyones math...
Or did you miss the part of my post where I said Musk was bang on for *commercial* launches...?
Yup, because lowest bidding contractor has *never* had any downside...
I'd rather the government went for quality over lowest cost when we are talking about launch a billion dollars of something that you are self insuring. SpaceX is getting there on quality, but this comparison is still ridiculous.
The $422m figure is for a Delta Heavy launch, which makes the comparison with the Falcon 9 laughable - it should be compared with a Falcon Heavy launch, which SpaceX ain't giving launch cost figures for yet.
Also, Musks quote about the $300m price difference being the cost of the satellite is bang on, for commercial launches - military satellites are often into the billions of dollars, and as such are less price sensitive on the launch and more success sensitive. Delta Iv Heavy is at 8 launches with no failures (one partial success) and Atlas V is at 71 launches with no failures (one partial success).
SpaceX are getting there with reliability, but Musk needs to learn to STFU when it comes to price sensitivity because for some customers thats not the driving factor.
Anyone remember when Slashdot had similar issue with its comments a few years back...?
California lost that argument in the Supreme Court (DirecTV vs. Imburgia - 2015).
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in 2015 (DirecTV vs. Imburgia) that arbitration clauses in consumer contracts were binding, even above state law go the contrary.
The UKs National Threat Level has been at "severe or "critical" for 9 of the last 11 years. We are already in the midst of a never ending emergency, the UK government would *love* this...
Whats the Beanie Baby market looking like these days...?
Buy the land, don't rent it. If you rent it, you can't complain when the house you build on the land is torn down after your rental period expires.
If the government wants to bitch and moan about it, then they should buy the land and then its theirs to do with as they wish, for as long as they wish.
Farmers electing to not renew the contracts for allowing the land to lay fallow means that they think the money they get for doing so is less than the money they can get from working that land - so basically the government need to make it more of an incentive than they do right now.
And none of that, including reading the article, changes my point about the title, summary and tense... the money paid is historical for historical obligations, it doesn't cover current obligations.
Tense is everything, and tense is something the title and summary screws up royally.
Title says ...
however the summary says the US stopped paying the farmers that money, because the farmers ceased to renew the enrolments...
The title makes it sound like the farmers are taking the money and eschewing their responsibilities and allowing the soil to blow away - they aren't, those responsibilities expired when the money stopped flowing.
The document seems to be a summary of an *ongoing* investigation - in what way is it "hidden evidence"?
She saw something juicy, and she leaked it - theres nothing here which is whistleblowing. In the document she released, there is no evidence of wrong doing by the NSA, her employers, her colleagues or the government, just some information on an in progress investigation.
In what way was the document that Reality Leigh Winner leaked *whistleblowing*...?
It just seems like a cheapening of the term...
What sort of weak ass employment law do you work under where you can't take holiday time and expect to be undisturbed...?